Neewer® NW565EX Professional E-TTL Slave Flash Speedlite Kit for Canon DSLR Cameras- Includes: Neewer Auto-Focus Flash+2.4G Wireless Trigger+C1/C3 Cables+Hard & Soft Diffuser+Lens Cap Holder

Basically I am an anti-flash photographer. I prefer to use a fast lens and higher iso settings to get low light images, and I get pretty good results doing it. Don't get me wrong, I get that there is a place for a flash ... I just never cared. Times change and I must change along with it. I was given the opportunity to photograph an awards dinner for an engineering competition. It was going to be held at a convention center at a hotel and I knew the lighting conditions were going to be challenging. Plus I needed to use my wider zoom in order to be able to get the best range of shorts and it is not a fast lens. To prepare I jumped on Amazon and started looking at flashes. Not being a pro or even a flash user, I knew I would never benefit from spending $400 on a Canon flash. Sure they are nice and would work well with my 50D, but yeah no. I needed something cheap and decent and that was it. I had a friend that bought a few Yongnuo flashes a few years back and loved them and so I started there. For whatever reason I ended up being attracted to the Neewer models instead. The fact that it came in a kit with the wireless triggers and a few accessories swayed me and so I grabbed one.I got it and unboxed everything. Let me start with the accessories. The wireless triggers are very similar to some I have used in the past from Yongnuo. They feel solid and seem to work great. The foot that comes with the flash feels really cheap. It is lightweight plastic and although it works, I wouldn't bet a lot on it holding up over time. It does have a 1/4in metal threaded mount in the base, so it can be attached to a tri-pod. That said it doesn't scream well made or solid. I will be very careful it I ever use it on a tr-pod. The floppy hood feels cheap. I think the hard plastic one that comes with the flash is better made and more useful. Several cables come with it. The one that fits my 50D works but it not well made. It did work but I had to wiggle it some to get it to make a good contact.The flash itself feels well made and solid. It feels solid when you adjust the flash up and down, as well as when you swivel it. The display is easy to read and the backlight is nice. Like others have said, the manual sucks and should be disregarded. My advice is to play with it and you will find your way around it quickly enough. I used the flash at the awards dinner in E-TTL mode and it worked great with my 50D. The camera had no issues controlling every aspect of the flash. The in-camera flash controls worked fine as well.What I needed at the dinner was a nice bounce light to speed things up and correct the very yellow lighting in the ball room. For that the flash did really well. I set the flash to E-TTL mode and set the zoom to 50mm to lengthen the flash output to bounce off the higher ceiling of the ball room. I set the camera to program auto mode, a rarity for me, set the ISO to 640 and exposure to -2/3 stop. That gave me very nice lighting with great contrast on the award winners, without blowing anything out. All the photos I took were spaced out, so I did not get a chance to test out the recycle time.In conclusion ... I needed a "cheap" flash that I can use on occasion and it needed to be decent quality, as well as fairly powerful. I feel like I chose well. I will have no hesitation in purchasing another of these flashes if it becomes needed.

item is just as described, easy to use and works great!

The price is right, the build quality seems OK, and the features OK... but the performance falls short and I think that's important to know. I'd given it a generous 3 stars largely because compared to what it costs, it's going to be adequate. Downgraded to 2 because it's so inconsistent. Can't depend on getting anything close to a good exposure.It's an automatic, zoom flash, but it falls unfortunately short in at least two key areas: light uniformity and exposure accuracy. While the NW-565C Professional is advertised as an 18-180mm unit (meaning it will work with 18-180mm focal length lenses) it has a noticeable amount of light fall off beyond the center of the field for the widest focal lengths. The lighting is not uniform. This would be an even bigger problem for the full frame DSLRs listed. My Canon T4i has an APS-C size sensor rather than full frame and it's a problem for me on wide angle shots. Basically, having an APS-C means the focal length printed on the lens needs to be multiplied by about 1.6 to get the effective focal length. So an 18mm captures what a 28mm lens mounted on a full frame camera would see, a 50 becomes becomes an 80mm, and a 135 is 216mm. Everything's "magnified" (or rather you only capture the cnertal portion of what the lens sees).That means when the flash gets the signal from the camera that it's an 18mm focal length, it adjusts for 18mm, but the camera sees 28mm. Even looking at the center of the light field, it's clearly not uniform in coverage and would be much worse on a full frame camera. It's more uniform once you get to 35mm focal length on this camera, but the then next problem shows up -- the light output isn't calibrated to the lens f-stop and focal length. Exposures become increasingly over exposed as the focal length increases -- until the image is pretty well washed out. The photos are of the side of my neighbor's dirty house, all take from the same tripod-mounted point, only zooming the lens and letting the flash do the "automatic" part. At the higher focal lengths, setting the flash to -0.7 exposure seems about right, but that kills the notion that you can mount this flash on your camera and expect it to give correct exposures from 18-135 (in my case). So, for the price, it's a nice flash -- as long as you don't expect it to work accurately for all settings. Sorry, you'll need to tweak the exposure if you plan on taking shots from wide to tele.Oh, and there's one other performance issue (the 3rd important thing one likes to have work as advertised): the recycle time. While the manual and description say it's a fast 2.9 seconds (which would be fast) I find even with a new set of batteries if I do a full manual dump it's more like 8 (eight) seconds. So if you need a lot of light and deplete the capacitor, don't expect to be ready for a lot longer than that 2.9 seconds. Advertised recycle time should be worst case, not the time it takes to recover from a 10% light discharge. This is with fresh alkalines. I haven't tried NiMh yet, but don't expect much change in timing. I also haven't decided if I'm going to keep it. As another reviewer commented, I don't use a flash enough to spend $300-400 for a nice Canon but hoped this would live up to it's claims.

So far so good, have to read the manual a bit more.

I own a Bower Electronic Flash but when I saw this advertised I decided to buy it and THE NW-656C FAR SURPASSES MY EXPECTATIONS. I am using my New Flash Unit with my Canon T5 and it works just perfectly. I don't know how it works with other cameras - that would have to be checked out by the purchaser and manufacturer.

Good product and good quality for the price

This item was fairly easy to figure out once I found a U-tube tutorial. Don't even bother opening the instructions, what a joke you will only get frustrated. I set the flash on a tripod 50 feet away and I am pleased to say it fired perfectly. Nice product for the money two thumbs up.Shipping however was longer than what the add selling it says. I selected 4 - 5 day shipping and I got it in10 days. I even placed another order with amazon 4 days later and guess what ? Both orders showed up the same day......... two thumbs down

I have had mine for a few years and have bought two more since. Its just as good as the big names. it has a quick regain. I can click away and it keeps up. love it and will keep buying Neewer everytime