Flash Equipment

Magazines and the Internet are crammed full of retailers trying to sell you the latest bit of flash lighting equipment that they claim is guaranteed to transform your image-making. Much of the equipment on offer is great and can have a real impact on your photos, but you don’t need it all at once and chances are you may already own enough to start your voyage into using off-camera flash.

One of the biggest issues is whether to invest in your camera manufacturer’s own system or not. If you want to use several different cameras, or think you may switch brands in the future, then you probably shouldn’t. Will the manufacturer always make their clever, integrated flash systems forward-compatible, so that any new camera you may buy ...

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