Provides only the bare necessities

Provides only the bare necessities

Fujifilm EF-42 TTL flash for HS20, HS25, HS30, X100, X-S1, X10 and X-Pro-1. (Camera)

Customer Review

Those looking for a reasonably powerful flash unit to its Fujifilm system cameras, can not avoid the EF 42. Too feeble are the two alternative devices with its guide number of 20 only, the device with slave flash function is not even swivel. Thus even the first downer: The EF-42 is not to be used in conjunction with other flashes, but I already knew before buying. From strobe or other subtleties also no question, only the compulsory program with rotating and swiveling reflector. But one expects an otherwise solid device for the price.

But even when you unpack the first disappointment: The flash comes without bag, pouch or any other form of protection. He looks as if it would have needed because the casing acts processed cheaply and simply. Even otherwise, there is no accessory such as a reflector card or a softbox. Only a pull-out wide-angle diffuser, but also does not cover the whole reflector. The foot is also made of cheap plastic, about sitting for fixing a large, sharp-edged plastic knurled wheel. Inconveniently it concealed in my e-X2 1/3 of Verschlusszeitwahlrads, to even the index mark.
The operating concept will make do with only 2 buttons. Therefore you have to be for each setting tedious and stupid by the two menus click. Until then, you have already missed so many recording situation. But the manual warns against overheating anyway by fast flash sequences. In practice, however, the range indicator on the display. Man photographing with a zoom lens, the device needs some time until it detects the set focal length and the automatic zoom adjustment reacts quite slow on the zooming.
Its essential purpose met the Blitz then inconspicuously satisfactory, the specified performance seems to fit. However, deficiencies shows the uniformity of illumination. While there is access to the upper corners no light falloff, the lower left corner shows a slight, the lower right corner of the picture a striking drop in brightness. Flashed against a white wall, with a 27mm pancake lens on the camera (thus excluding all shading by the lens) shows the particularly clear. The use of the lens brings a slight improvement, but it is not the intention, since the power is reduced.
Two stars are there already a leap of faith.

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