Sensational 10

I have the YN565EX now been almost a year and I'm still excited. The flash is very well made and is available to an often more expensive Canon products here really not after. The equipment belongs to the upper middle class. The guide number is one in the superclass for Aufsteckblitze and when things get tight, it is essentially important.

Who does not need ETTL, can buy the YN560 (II or better III) - the flashes are otherwise virtually identical
Those who like to 1/8000 could, should pick up the YN-568EX II.
For me the YN565EX was the perfect introduction.

The flash is quite huge and also consumes quite a lot of electricity. Fortunately, there is the Sanyo Eneloop batteries with whom one does not have to fret (correct charger as Technoline BC 700 provided). When in his Canon has a built-in flash, you can ignite the YN5xx about this (S1 and S2, with and without pre-flash). Really fun, it makes the flash wirelessly trigger the Yongnuo RF-603 - so you have a higher reliability and above all more control over the light, because you do not need the frontal mounting lightning. Of the Yongnuo RF-603, I have three, because you can remotely trigger the camera on it (including the half-point pressure of the trigger.) - At the same time with wireless flash triggering.

Studio flashes can usually settle down only to 1/32 - the YN5xx up to 1/128 and this setting you also need really.

If you are looking for a new flash for its camera, for me not the question of whether or not a Yongnuo, but only some. I have in the meantime a second Yongnuo (the YN560 III), because I've noticed that I rarely successful use ETTL and usually lightning manually.