Customer Reviews

MS-1 AUTO FLASH BOOSTER/SLAVE

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I have purchased four of the Ms 1 flash boosters and find them a God send!!! I really used them two days ago for shooting several portraits at a college and I must say I was impressed and relieved...I can take these little guys with me anywhere and not have to haul my studio lights. I was fooling around with them the other day and was able to set them off at a good 50 feet..Have rechargeable batteries and you will do fine...I shoot with a D2x and have no problems....

I recently bought 2 more of these flashes to add to my collection. I find that if you diffuse the flash with a piece of a white walmart bag these flashes give great light. I have even used two of these in a softbox and gotten great results. My favorite part is they are cordless and easy to take on location. I have even been able to use them outdoors. These flashes also seem very reliable as I have had two of them for 3 years now. I use these flashes with a Canon S3IS in manual mode with no problem.

I shoot with a digital SLR, several lens and sometimes studio strobes with umbrellas, stands, backgrounds, etc. But these little things make life much simpler and lighter for on the go and spontaneous portrait work. I bought 2 and now I am ordering 3 more. These are perfect for portraits, painting interiors, close-ups (get a small light tent) and even newswork.

These guys are tiny but pack a punch! They were perfect for a shoot I did that involved many colors adding the extra bit of control that I needed. Only downside was that the batteries went fast and I had to slow down my fast shooting style for the recharge, but I have a good amount of rechargables now and they're my little saviors!

Very effective as a fill flash for portraits or as a secondary flash when shooting in low light. Nothing fancy about this one. Last quite a while with two standard AA batteries. Would certainly recommend to anyone who wants to exercise some control on lighting indoors. At this price, you just can't go wrong.

MS-1 Wireless Flash Booster / Slave

Works great, just set hot shoe flash to manual.

While I use the white Wal-Mart bag trick, I also use polyester quilt batting to diffuse the light. 1/4" to 1/2" thick does the trick. You can easly make a "tent" outa this stuff too. Note: the polyester quilt batting tends to transmit light as well as diffuse it, similar to fiber optics.
This unit will work fine, though you should also look at the list to the right of this.

A neat little unit which produces excellent results both with a Canon point and shoot and a Nikon dSLR.
Perfect as a background flash at parties and for portrait usage.
Great value!

I love this thing. I'm too cheap to buy a good camera (cuz I'll kill it)and always up on cliffs, down in wet caves, or out in the woods. This flash dramatically improves the quality of my pictures taken with disposable cameras. Easy to use. Easy not to worry about. If I ever drop it in a subterranean river, I'll just fork out another $20 bucks for another one. VERY happy I bought this.

This has a guide number (GN) of about 10-20 ft at ISO 100, i.e. very weak. This GN was computed from the dial on the unit. The specs don't spell out the GN. I haven't checked whether it actually delivers that power. Even a GN of 20 is very weak (e.g. 5 ft at f/4, ISO 100).

This flash uses 2 AAA batteries. Why not the longer-lasting AA? Why not 4 batteries?

This flash will not work with cameras that have a pre-flash.

I returned mine right away.