Originally posted by stub Can the ttl system return a well exposed image ? A lot of the time you are taking quick candid shots. Running and gunning..!! Cant fire the flash directly. At least grab something you can work on when you get home. And both units have delivered this for me.
It may just be my Pentax unit. But I find the head a little weak when in the bounced tilt position. Difficult to support a modifier. Which the Shanny certainly isnt.
My opinion is when you are purchasing your flash. You have to sit down and analyse before you purchase your flash. What it is exactly what you want it to do.. If you eventually want to build up an off camera wireless system. Then you should steer towards the Pentax units. Or rear curtain sync captures. Other than that, off the top of my head the Shanny can equal all other features, just as well. At a third of the price. A decent quality. Easily affordable reliable unit. Some bells n whistles not all.
I totally agree. Before I pulled the trigger on my Shanny SN600FGZ, I looked at what must have been EVERY flash, manual, P-TTL, HSS and not.
Eventually I weighed the cost difference vs specs vs power rating to see if another $100-500 was really worth a couple of features I may use on rare occasions.
Bang for buck, the Shanny still surprises me. In P-TTL, bounced. rotated, bounced AND rotated (outside of HSS) it just seems to always expose perfectly.
Manual mode is extremely powerful. Even HSS with no diffuser shocked me.
The ONLY thing is lack of support and communication from Shanny regrding anything related to the Flash.
Would I buy another one? Absolutely! For the performance to price ratio, I don't think it can be beat (unless you NEED the Pentax Optical Wireless flash triggering or don't want to use transceivers at all if/when you get into off camera flash, then Yongnuo 585EX would be the economists choice) for the feature set. I've tested and shot the Shanny at events indoors on camera, off camera for portrait sessions, macro, pets, both with and without HSS and the images always come out beautifully lit.