Customer Reviews

NEEWERŽ Digital Slave Flash + Bracket Set for Digital SLR DSLR Cameras or any Digital Camara! "Fires Without Wires - No Camera Connection Required!" Automatically Synchronizes and Fires with Your Built-In Flash

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3 star:		(9)
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I ordered this product without high hopes because the price was very low. I have been pleasantly surprised, it does what it's supposed to and that's all you can ask for. I would recommend this to others seeking a low cost digital slave flash, the price is definitely right.

This flash works, and it is a great deal (for that price). You get about 50 flashes on the 2 aa bateries that it requires

This flash works great. It's not the brightest or best built but slaves perfectly. A great buy.

First, this unit doesn't work with many brands of nihm (including all the precharged types like eneloops) due to the design of the battery door. This is because those batteries have slightly different profiles on negative end to standard dry cell AA's, namely the door will not make contact to the negative end. You can fix this as I did by taking off the metal contact piece inside the door and bending the neg "nipple" towards the cell.

There seems to be no prior review which actually referenced power or other more technical specs, so I measure this flash against manual operation of the built-in unit on my D40.

The D40 in manual flash mode is known to have GN ~14, and allow fractional step adjustments. Using that and correlating w/ the built-in histogram, this "Neewer" has about 1/6 the power of a full blast (right between 1/4 and 1/8 settings). Therefore, the neewer has a relative GN of Sqrt(14m^2/6) ~= 5.7m, or not very useful as a hot shoe flash for better cameras. :)

That's around the power rating of built-in flashes on larger/higher end point and shoots, or the new crop of mirrorless slr's (eg pana gf-2, sony nex). On those units, it would double the total light output and increase the range of the flash (using this as a slave) by factor of ~1.4. Not very strong, but commiserate w/ the price.

Other significant spec include a hot shoe trigger voltage of 4-6v depending on the state of the battery, and charge current from the AA's start at 1.5A or so and drop to 0.2A after a few sec and stays there even when the unit's doing nothing. This means you should turn it off when not operating since it would drain new batteries in about 10 hours from just being turned on (standard ~2000mah batteries).

Using this flash with a Panasonic ZS3 camera (which has a 25mm wide angle lens). Set the flash at "S2" slave mode and tested about 50+ pictures with it. The flash never missed. It takes about 2 sec. to recharge (faster than the camera) and really helped make the room brighter. I'm using NIMH batteries and it's still recharging at 2 sec. after 50+ shots.

At $8, this is a no-brainer if you take indoor pictures. Already recommended it to a friend.

This flash was extremely easy to use and worked very well. However after about 10 or so flashes the whole thing just STOPPED WORKING COMPLETELY. I have been unable to use it since.

I love these little guys! I use them in strobist work to use for hairlights and lighting backgrounds, I have other flashes better suited to use for my main lights, But I'm sure with some creative diffusion fixes these would atleast be better than nothing! with some good rechargable batteries the recycle time is only 4-6 seconds, Not super fast, but it's also not 15 seconds long. If you're starting out grab atleast one and work on diffusing it, if you're more seasoned, these come in handy for several different creative uses!

Hey, take the chance -- I'm sure glad I did. This little flash is great. It fires optically when your main camera flash goes. It has a 4-way selector that gives you a choice to fire on the first thru fourth flash (1,2,3,4 ETTL pre-flashes). It is not real powerful, but I use it with my strobes to do fill flash or to light from the bottom (bounce off a reflector on the floor). It has a shoe mount with the standard threaded adapter so you can attach to a tripod. It's extremely light, so I can use one of those tiny, bendable tripods to hold it and direct it appropriately. The bracket alone is worth $10. Instead of agonizing, just buy it. I bet you will buy another after receiving it too.

Bought this so I could use the bracket with one of my large flashes set as an optical slave, so I wasn't expecting the small flash that came with it to be of any use since it was only $10. Well it's actually a pretty good little flash! Granted it's small so it's best for shooting at short distances indoors but still, for the price it's great. Also, the optical slave works incredibly well, it can sense even the slightest bit of flash from a good distance. I'd buy it again.

I bought two to make an inexpensive macro lighting rig. They do an adequate job with my Nikon D60. They arrived today & I just hope I get some life out of them. Photos can be evaluated above - see - "View and share related images".