Triopo LE-28 4400mAh External Li-Ion Battery Pack for Speedlites Review

Further to my older review of the YongNuo SF-18 External Battery Pack for Canon Speedlites which is powered by standard Alkaline or Rechargeable AA batteries, I came across Triopo LE-28 battery pack which originally powered Triopo's TR-120 bare bulb flash units.

YongNuo SF-18 External Battery Pack for Canon Speedlites Review

YongNuo Digital is for a long time well known to strobists for their decent quality, lower priced speedlite flash units as well as their radio remote flash triggers.
Beside that, they do make some other accessories as this SF-18 External Battery Pack for Canon presented here.

Announcement of Rebates on L Lenses and Flashes from Canon U.S.

Expired!
Canon U.S. just announced a Mail-in Rebate program for a large selection of Canon EF L series lenses as well as Instant Rebates for other Canon products.

Buyers of the eligible EF lenses will receive an American Express® Reward Card by mail with purchase of select Canon Product(s) shipped from and sold by Authorized Canon Dealers.

Announcement of Triopo Speedlight TR-982 High Speed Sync Flash

Triopo is well known by now for their budget Carbon Fiber series tripods like the GT-3228X8C or the GX-1328 which I have reviewed.

However, in parallel with the tripod lines they have always had a full series of Studio and Field Flashes under the OUBAO brand name, which were and are mostly sold in their vast internal market. So the international markets are not so aware of those.

Announcement of Instant Rebates on Lenses and Flashes from Canon U.S.

Expired!

Further to the recent Announcement of Selected EF & EF-S Lenses Price Drops which was universal, Canon U.S. just announced an instant rebate program for a larger selection of Canon EF, EF-S, TS-E lenses and Extenders.

The rebate program contains also the previously dropped lenses as well as most of the Canon Speedlite flashes.

Meike OC-E3 Off-Camera Shoe Cord for Canon

In plain language an off-camera shoe cord is actually an extension cable, replicating the on-camera hot shoe contacts to a hot shoe on a small block at the other end of the cable.

Canon Speedlite 580EX Reference Page

This is a reference page for the Canon Speedlite 580EX which has been a valuable assistant in filling-in and background lighting my setups for quite many years now.

The flash was released in August 2004 replacing the 550EX in order to complement the top then EOS cameras, the EOS 1D MkII and EOS 20D covering fully the 45 AF points of the former and auto conversion of flash coverage between FF, HPS-C and APS-C sensors.

Canon Speedlite Transmitter ST-E2 Reference

Speedlite transmitter ST-E2 is an infra-red wireless flash controller originally dedicated to the Speedlite 550EX with master / slave functions as well as the smaller Speedlite 420EX slave only. Nevertheless, it can control all EX series speedlites hence forward up to the 580EX II.

Canon Speedlite 420EX Reference Page

This is a reference page for the Canon Speedlite 420EX which has been a valuable assistant in filling-in and background lighting my setups for several years.

The 420EX was originally introduced by Canon as a cheaper alternative to Speedlite 550EX while it could also perform as a companion, by being able to accept remote commands from 550EX in Slave mode.


Having had some frustration with early YongNuos, I had purchased 420EX used, at a very attractive price, exactly for its slave function.


Beside that, it worked very well on top of EOS 400D /Digital Rebel XTi mostly as a bounce flash. However, there are some incompatibilities with crop factor digital cameras concerning the zoom ratio translation as the flash unit was designed with Canon film cameras in mind.