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Canon wireless flash with built in radio control

Canon wireless flash with built in radio control

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Canon wireless flash with built in radio control

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Hi, I'm Ben Long. And this week on the Practicing Photographer, we're going to talk about a very specific Canon flash model, the Speedlite 600EX-RT. If you've seen my Foundations of photography, Flash course, you have seen examples of the importance of getting your flash off your camera. Once your flash is out here floating around the world, you can do cooler lighting effects, you can eliminate a lot of the problems that flash photography often creates like red eye and harsh front lighting. The problem is to get you flash off camera, you've got to have a way of connecting it to the camera. There are very inexpensive alternatives for that, such as off-camera sync cords. There are also, radio options. In the Foundations of Photography flash course, I look at some Cowboy Studios little radio transmitters. I like those a lot. But, they're not always completely reliable. Sometimes, I have find that I turn them on and they're not finding each…

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