Whether during the day used as backlight or low light in rooms or at dusk, for me this flash always despite its additional weight, a real asset.
The price makes itself from the very first photo offset if instead Noise promoting ISO values revving or shaky footage so that now the operating times shortened considerably, the ISO settings by 1-2 steps can further be provided down.
Because I also have just not every day or even a week in use and larger events with friends or sporadic use of my photo tours, I take Batteries with the luggage. The power of the batteries using the device sparingly. Approximately 250-350 trips are possible with the VARTA "High Energy".
For little brother, the 430 EXII I enjoy here the reserves that the device offers. Even exteriors at dusk in about 6 meters shine with use of flash even in natural bright light without vignetting at the edges, outshone motive or red eyes.
Also thanks to the fact that you can also swivel the flash and provided with a diffuser.
Even with long telephoto lenses bothers no lens shade the flash picture.
I recommend as I said would like to take the young Gelegenheitsfotografierer who values from the outset good pictures on the ambitious amateur photographers, as the studio photographers of the flash in combination with other slave flashes ..
Here Canon has provided the user with a really good work means to the side.