Introducing the new (2nd hand) Canon Speedlite 550EX TTL!!!
A massive thank you goes out to Sean, Samantha and Danny, who lunched with me yesterday, then tagged along while I agonised over whether to buy the aforementioned SpeedLite 550EX or not.
And I agonised for oh 2 hours... so it mustn't have been easy on em.
After all the faffing about, I am now the proud (2nd) owner of a fairly beat up Canon Speedlite 550EX TTL. Four years old and fairly well-used... but it only set me back $330... which in the grand scheme of things isn't all to bad I would say.
So yes I got me a flash unit, then of course had to get a set of rechargeable batteries to match, so I got me the GP 2700 NiMh rechargeable AAs. Not too bad... took the flash gun for a test run last night at Louis' dinner party and it got me about 170 shots before passing out. So that sounds okay for now. Will compare them against a set of PowerEx ones I'm hoping to get soon.
Okay so I'll upload some photos from last night, with the new flash unit, a little later. :)
And I agonised for oh 2 hours... so it mustn't have been easy on em.
After all the faffing about, I am now the proud (2nd) owner of a fairly beat up Canon Speedlite 550EX TTL. Four years old and fairly well-used... but it only set me back $330... which in the grand scheme of things isn't all to bad I would say.
So yes I got me a flash unit, then of course had to get a set of rechargeable batteries to match, so I got me the GP 2700 NiMh rechargeable AAs. Not too bad... took the flash gun for a test run last night at Louis' dinner party and it got me about 170 shots before passing out. So that sounds okay for now. Will compare them against a set of PowerEx ones I'm hoping to get soon.
Okay so I'll upload some photos from last night, with the new flash unit, a little later. :)