YONGNUO YN560 IV Wireless Flash Speedlite Master + Slave Flash + Built-in Trigger System for Canon Nikon Pentax Olympus Fujifilm Panasonic Digital Cameras

I have about twelve of these flashes and use them for wedding, event and real estate photography. Im very happy with them but only give them a four star rating, because the quality is a lottery game. They might be dead right out of the box or they might just die in a few months or weeks. They might survive three falls on concrete and still work rock solid after two years of daily use. Dont know. Considering the low price and always having backup flashes with me, I can live with that. Things you need to know: These flashes are fully manual. No TTL. No high speed sync either. Meaning your shutter speed cannot exceed 1/160s or whatever your cameras sync speed is. Most people not comfortable with shooting in Manual mode should exit here and look for other products. You can fire these with a) YN560-TX triggers (recommended) b) Yongnuo RF-603 I or II triggers c) another YN560 IV flash WIth 4 Eneloop batteries I get about 100 full 1/1 power pops out of them. Manual adjustments are really easy to make from 1/128 to 1/1 power in either full steps or 1/3 steps. If they dont suddenly die (which doesnt happen that often, but it does), they are otherwise very reliable. I never had an issue on the job. The light output is as powerful as any high end speedlite flash. Outdoors I like to use three of them on a triple hotshoe bracket and get the light output of a studio strobe in a highly portable package running on AA batteries. I like to work with them because the manual settings are really easy to adjust and they are chap enough that I can replace them. I can leave one on a lightstand in a conference room and walk away. I can knock the lightstand over and just destroy $70. Comforting.

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I am a professional photographer so I am using the YN560 IV regularly in that capacity. Ive owned name-brand speedlights, LumoPro 180s. and now these. for $70 you get flashes with built in transceivers that let you remotely control power, zoom, grouping, etc. For that money these things are a no-brainer. I never use TTL so I couldnt care less that these are manual only, thats what I prefer. Ive never had an issue with these and Ive had them for almost a year, using them multiple times a week. The only thing that keeps me from giving them 5 stars is the build quality is not quite as high as it could be, theres no AF assist beam, and the controls and hotshoe lock are not as nice as on the YN600EX. Dont get me wrong, theyre solid flashes, but if you compare the build to the LP180s (those babies are tanks!) these fall a little short. The YN560 IV are an absolute dream for wedding and events where I mix off-camera flash with on-camera. No extra triggers or gadgets required since everything is built in already. If they ever do break it wont be a big deal at all since it will only cost me another $70 to replace them.

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Revised: I bought four of these over a few weeks and two were defective. Yongnuo appears to have a serious quality control problem. Each had different issues. The first bad unit made a loud clicking sound and didn’t retain settings after being turned off. On the second bad unit the zoom head kept getting stuck and continued grinding when activated by 560TX commaner. The only way to stop the zoom from grinding was to pop out the batteries. This unit also continued losing contact with the 560TX commander over short distances and would shut itself down inexplicably after one flash - yes I tried multiple sets of fresh batteries. Original review: I bought three of these and one was defective. The ones that worked are terrific units, with all the features you’d want in a speedlight at a very modest cost. So it seems there is a quality control issue on a very well designed and priced flash option.

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