Top positive review
5.0 out of 5 starsIt removes strong shadows in Macro Photography! Awesome!
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2019
I have had the twin flash for 4 months and I have taken it on assignments on tough conditions. I live in the tropics and do macro photography and many of my subjects are in the rainforest. My subjects not only are small but most of the time are in vegetation that makes other flash systems difficult to use because of how far the light source is from the lens. I used to have many shadows when I used a standard flash. With the twin flash, the light goes with the lens! Moreover I am able to eliminate the strong shadows from my subjects by controlling the position of the heads. I might want one side to side or up and down (see frog pupils and you will see the light positions). Before I get my ass chewed for using flash on a frog, I have to say that the other nice feature of the lash is that you can control the output of each head independently and make it as weak as possible and rely on high ISO to compensate. You can see it by the pupils of the frogs not shrinking to a mere slit. There is a high learning curve though. The flash as a whole is a big contraption but it is what it is. It delivers the light and it is must have contraption for the serious macro photographers.
My biggest problem with it is that it is bulky to carry assembled in a camera bag, but the pictures I get at the end of the day are totally worth dealing with its bulkyness. Maybe in the future the main part of the flash can be as big as the Canon radio transmitter ST-E3-RT! But something in my mind is clear, when the humidity of my country gets to the flash and kills it, I will have to buy one again! It is a must for my photography.
Also a piece of advice to all photographers that come to the tropics, buy dry bags for your equipment! They have saved my equipment when I get caught in an unexpected torrential rain.
