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Hello there,
I have a Canon 350d and I want to get a hotshoe mountable flash for it, mainly to use for bouncing indoors to take more natural photos of people. (I'll hopefully upgrade my 350d some time soon, so it needs to work on later models too)
I only have a budget of £100, and closer to £60 or £70 would be better.
I am considering these:
Canon 270EX, Jessops 360AFD, Sunpak PZ42X or Nissin Digital Di622 and would be most greatful for any educated opinions ;o)
Thank you!!
Like you I have a 350d, I was recently looking at the same things as you, what I found searching was that the build quality varied between models. My recommendation would be to either stretch the budget or save for a canon unit I paid £180 from jacobs for mine. Other options would be to look at 2nd hand 430ex or 550ex.
A further note, whatever you get I'd make sure it has swivel/bounce facility, you'll find that in the long run it will give you more flexibility
Dont take this the wrong way, but what is it you are wanting the flash for? Is it a case you are missing something or is it you feel you should have one
Chris
With the budget you have buy a Yongnuo flash gun, and with the spare change, buy a RF-602 radio trigger/receiver set. This will allow you to use the flash off-camera, which will give you better portraits as the flash wont be sat on top of the camera, which doesn't look like a natural light source.
Flash gun
Flash trigger set
The flash in the link is ~£60, but they do cheaper guns.
The only downside about this system, is that you have to set the flash manually, as opposed to having ettl funtionality, but it really isn't rocket science - just a matter of whether you want the flash brighter or dimmer.
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