What is a good external flash for canon t1i?
Thursday, March 18th, 2010 at
5:44 am
♥ Her ♥ asked:
I just bought my first DSLR- a canon t1i. I like it so far, but I hate flashes on canons, they are a bright white that washes out whatever I am shooting. I try to refrain from flash usage if I can help it but there are certain times that it is just needed, especially with how dimly lit my house is. Are there any better external flashes that i can use that wouldnt give such a white out effect?
I just bought my first DSLR- a canon t1i. I like it so far, but I hate flashes on canons, they are a bright white that washes out whatever I am shooting. I try to refrain from flash usage if I can help it but there are certain times that it is just needed, especially with how dimly lit my house is. Are there any better external flashes that i can use that wouldnt give such a white out effect?
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Best thing you can do is to buy an external flash that you can swivel the head of. This will allow you to bounce the light off of another surface and illuminating the subject. Your subjects usually get washed out from direct flash, which can be helped with diffusers. There are lots of flashes out there that will do this. For the T1i you need to look for a flash that uses TTL to meter the flash. This will ensure your camera, flash and lens all “talk” to each other to give you great results.
I recommend the Canon 430 EXII. However there are several offbrand flashes that will do just as well.
However the 430 EXII can be controlled in the menus of the T1i making it much easier to adjust the custom functions of the flash. You won’t even have to touch the controls on the flash (most of the time)
I’d go for the Canon 430EX II. It gives you full manual control as well as a bounce and swivel head (so you can reflect off a ceiling or wall to reduce harsh lighting).
Sigma also makes a couple flashes for canon cameras, just make sure whatever you get has a bounce and swivel head as well as manual control, or else you will find yourself limited by it quickly.