p.2 #3 · What Flash should I buy for a new Canon 6D?
I have both 270exII and 580exII for the 6D. The little guy is light & small, great for fill flash and used 75% of the time. There're time I need more power and that's where the 580exII is needed, the bad part is heavy for handheld photography.
p.2 #5 · What Flash should I buy for a new Canon 6D?
pKai wrote:
Best Canon-compatible budget flash on earth: Yongnuo YN568EX II -- $169 on Amazon.
Feature and power-wise, this strobe compares favorably to the Canon 580EX and runs circles around all the Canon models below it. Its a tough little strobe too.... I've had mine in humid rainy jungle daily for weeks at a time with no issues.
If I depended on my strobes for a living, like wedding and event photographers do, I'd be shooting Canon 600EX-RTs and paying $550 a pop. For me, however, strobes are lots of outdoor fill-flash and the occasional indoor shot. For this, the Yongnuo has never disappointed. They are compatible with common accessories such as the Better Beamer and various diffusers just like the Canon 580 is....Show more →
I agree with the Yongnuo choice here. If you prefer manual flashes there are a lot of cheap YN-560 IIs.
p.2 #6 · What Flash should I buy for a new Canon 6D?
On a side note, I was asked to make photographs on Saturday night - the first hour and a half the room was lit only by candles - I used a 50mm 1.4 and a 70-200 2.8L IS and managed to snap quite a few decent shots. After the lights were turned on, I only needed to use my flash about 20 times, hundreds of shots more were made in the available mixed lighting.
Adobe Camera Raw and DxO Optics Pro's noise reduction features worked pretty darn good cleaning up the images without losing too much detail.
