neewer 750ii ttl flash speedlite with lcd display supplier

Wow! First thing out of the box, trying several random TTL snapshots around the house, just Wow! Really excellent easy results. First impression was really good. I like it.

What"s not to like? It"s a relabeled Meike flash (appears to be the Meike MK-951), for only $54 USD. The Neewer VK750 II speedlight is decent power and fully featured. Not quite fully powered, about 0.8 stop less power than the SB-800, or about equal to a SB-700, but the SB-700 price will buy six of these!

It works very well in TTL and Manual modes, performance is nice. Results seemed to just always be about right, amazing minimal need for TTL compensation (that"s Big Talk, TTL simply cannot work like that, but it really does seem nice). It has convenient menus, and all the necessary features to use it: Zooms 18 to 180 mm (18 mm really means for DX only). It is iTTL, bounce head tilts to 90 degrees, head rotates 180 degrees left and 90 degrees right, with pullout bounce card and pull out wide angle diffuser. It has 1/3 stop compensation for TTL mode (and the camera can control it too). Manual mode does third stops to 1/128 power. Has a PC sync connector (threaded) for Manual flash. It has optical slave modes S1 and S2, each with their own normal menus (handy and obvious to use).

It recycles full power level in about 2.5 seconds (Eneloop NiMH, batteries Not included). FV Lock and Rear Curtain Sync work (those are camera functions). This flash has both the wheel clamp and pin shoe lock, so you have to rotate the wheel all the way up, which retracts the pin, then you can remove the flash. Foot has a steel hot shoe plate. It comes with a fabric draw string case and a plastic flat slave stand (aluminum threads in bottom). Sync voltage is a very safe five volts. Says it accepts a Nikon SD-8A type external battery pack. There are more descriptions about flash features at Beginners Guide to Select a Hot Shoe Flash.

TTL Bounce flash, standing under a ten foot ceiling, works at ISO 400 f/5.6 (but f/4 is always routinely safer to allow some margin, for scene variables and compensation and faster recycle, etc).

HSS FP flash mode and a Remote mode for Nikon Commander seem the only features Not in this model. If your camera does not have a Commander, those would be of no use anyway. It seems a really fine flash for general use, certainly including bounce flash. The VK750 II would be an really excellent choice for a beginner just getting into flash, before spending hundreds of dollars.

However yes, there are a few little things.The Neewer spec says guide number 58 (meters, 105 mm zoom), which seems like they printed the wrong GN chart. The Meike MK-951 spec says GN 42 (meters, 105 mm), and the actual power is near one stop less than GN 58. Still rather adequate power, more equivalent to Nikon SB-700 class, but not one of the fully powered flashes. For higher ceilings, bounce flash use would like the higher power rating.

18 mm zoom is very optimistic. They must be assuming DX only, and it is fine for DX. They just don"t say that, but it"s a 24 mm zoom. The Meike MK-951 spec says 24 mm zoom. See more below. I found auto zoom into 18 mm to be a little balky, but a couple of tries works. The zoom motor is slightly loud.

I saw an incompatibility with the old Nikon SC-17 hot shoe extension cord (three of them). Sometimes it worked, but usually wouldn"t, it could not see the camera, and it caused the camera viewfinder to show blanks for f/stop and shutter speed. Sometimes it will work if pulling the VK750 back slightly, not quite fully seated in the SC-17, sometimes there is a position where it might work (not easy to find). But there is absolutely no problem when mounted directly on the camera hot shoe.

Based on the few I have seen, the following appears to be true of all third party flashes:No warning of TTL underexposure at full power. This is a Nikon warning that the TTL flash has limited out at full power, but still cannot deliver the greater requested demand (for example, attempting ceiling bounce flash at f/16 ISO 100, which is not a reasonable try — try f/4 for bounce). This is my only real complaint, but it seems true of third party flashes in general. Such warning can tell us in advance that "compensation isn"t going to work here, we can only reduce power demands". This is a standard feature on Nikon TTL flashes, to give warning of that situation (flashing Ready light and beeps, and LCD display of stops underexposure). This seems a great Nikon feature, but it seems not a third party feature.

very nice menu system... natural, convenient, intuitive, readable. The English translation in the manual could be much better, but the flash is very easy to use.

Was the price mentioned? $54 USD is absolutely amazing for this much flash. Any regular use (hot shoe TTL and bounce, off camera Manual Slave mode, etc) will give no problem and will act like a $330 SB-700. A few extra features may be missing, but regular use is very nice.

The Neewer VK750 II, the Yongnuo YN565EX, and the Aperlite YH-700 flash heads are larger than some, and if you might want a clear snap-on diffuser dome for bounce flash, those for a SB-900 Nikon will fit all three of them. I am not a fan of the domes, I prefer the pull out bounce card, but I bought one to check size. The one I tried was Neewer Flash Bounce Light Diffuser Dome for Nikon SB900

The Nikon iTTL system defaults to actually be TTL BL mode (Balanced Fill Flash, same as the SB-700 mode). And like the Nikon flashes too, indoor TTL BL bounce flash often is better exposed with up to about +1 EV flash compensation, but that"s the camera metering system, not the flash. Camera Spot metering mode switches the flash metering out of TTL BL mode, to be actual TTL mode, but Spot metering itself is only about the ambient light, and the flash system does not use Spot metering (more below). The camera controls TTL flash and TTL metering.

The VK750 II does do the job very well, it is a very usable flash, ample power, versatile, and seems dependable. I am well satisfied with the flash and its features and power and performance, and the price for this much flash seems amazing. If a few hundred dollars of price has put off acquiring a flash, consider this one, a good usable flash. The price is a great feature, which simply buys more in this model.

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I got this flash not too long ago and I have to say that I"m pleasantly surprised at how good it is. The construction of the flash feels top notch and certainly doesn"t look like it"s $70. I"ve never had much experience with the $300 flashes mainly because I can"t justify spending that much money at the moment, but pretty much everything about this flash is superb. The LCD screen is very informative, it syncs with your camera so that it knows aperture, zoom and ISO settings, and it provides TTL, manual, slave 1 and slave 2 modes. As far as I can gather, the slave 1 mode makes the camera flash as soon as it senses a flash from the master (a typical slave function), and slave 2 makes it so that the master somehow creates a sync flash before the picture is taken just in case the slaves are misfiring. Don"t quote me on that though because as I will get into in a bit, the manual is so absolutely horrid that I can"t really tell what"s going on.A really nice feature that I like is the flash zoom. It"s a pretty standard feature on mid and upper range speedlights but it"s nice to see it on a $70 flash. It can be set either to automatically sync with your camera or can be manually set up to 180mm. This unit also gives you the option to plug it into external power, which either charges the batteries inside or makes the flash run solely off of the charger. I"m not sure which one it is because again, the manual is so horrible.The wide-angle diffuser is also a nice feature. Once you pull it out, the flash will automatically go to 14mm zoom and it doesn"t seem like you can change that. There is also a white card reflector that pops out so that if you are reflecting your flash off a ceiling or something, you can also pull the card out so that a little bit of it hits your subject directly.This speedlight also comes with a laser grid that helps your camera focus in low light. When your camera doesn"t have enough light for auto focus to function, the flash will project a laser grid onto the subject you"re trying to photograph so that your camera can focus. It"s very helpful and my camera focuses just as if there was a lot of light. I think this is a standard feature on most flashes but I thought I"d put in here anyways for those of you who don"t know.Now onto the big gripe. As is pretty customary with Chinese-made electronics, the manuals tend to have very shoddy English, but usually you can get by with what they"re trying to say. This manual? It"s barely intelligible. The English is so bad in certain places that I literally cannot understand what they"re saying and I"m just left wondering how I"m supposed to make this feature or that feature work on my own. Here are some excerpts from the manual, and keep in mind I"m typing every word (and misspelling) exactly:"The flash light is abnormal?Switch off the powr of flash light and camera,mount the flash light on the hot shoe...""In use process have function abnormal or part of the failure of function, can detach flash to installed the new battery then trun on again for recover normal use. For abnormal use may caused error state, under turning on status,replacement battery directly,the battery capacity lack, hot shoes too loose to happen badness contact, etc." (Wow, that was painful to write)"*Caution: long time no use, please featch out batteries.""If these demands conflict with your hoped direct ion of light irradiation..." (What, are we in a nuclear apocalypse now?)"Whenever which mode your flash, press the "[up arrow]" "[down arrow]" button for more than 2 seconds, then you can reset the parameter of the flash by fast-forward or fast-backward."It just goes on and on, and I could keep giving you more examples of how horrible it is. It"s almost like they used Google Translate to do all this, but even then that might be an insult to the makers of Google haha, so I don"t really know. A lot of the sentences don"t go together, and there"s hardly any useful information at all so you"re left wondering what the hell they are trying to say.Bottom line, this is an excellent and affordable flash, but I am warning you that if you decide to buy it, the manual is almost completely useless with all of its spelling errors and grammatical inconsistencies. That"s enough to warrant a reduction of one star because if you"re selling a product, you need to put at least a little bit of effort into telling your customers how to use it. I understand that the makers probably don"t speak English, but they could have hired a translator or something. It is a major frustration of mine, but I think I can look past it.Update: July 14, 2014Okay so I figure out what S1 and S2 modes are. S1 is apparently a manual expose slave function and S2 is a TTL function. I"m not sure how the S2 will work because the flash would need some kind of data connection to the camera so it knows how to expose it properly (based on what the camera meter says). Regardless, you have that option if you can figure it out.The flash is still operating very well. I"m still using the same 4 AA batteries I put in to begin with and it"s still going strong after some moderately heavy use. I expected to replace the batteries much more often than this but it seems they last quite a while.I"d also like to make a note about high speed sync. This flash does NOT offer high speed sync. It offers up to 1/250 for TTL and you can squeeze 1/320 out of it if you use the strobe function. The strobe is a bit more involved and takes some getting used to if you really want the extra shutter speed but it doesn"t come close to the true high speed sync of the Nikon flashes. Nikon uses a strobing technique for the high speed sync as well but the strobes are MUCH faster than the Neewer flash. That"s why it can use 1/8000 shutter speed.

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Product description A Guide to On-Camera Flash Read More Designed for Nikon DSLRs, the 750II TTL Flash from Neewer is a powerful speedlight featuring a guide number of 190" when set to ISO 100 and 105mm. It works with Nikon"s i-TTL system for simplified metering with any compatible camera, but can also be used in manual mode for customizing your exposure. More advanced options include S1 and S2 optical slave options for instant firing or skipping a pre-flash, and a stroboscopic mode with configurable flash rate and power. The 750II"s zoom head is notably versatile, with a 14 to 105mm coverage range, 90° upwards tilting, and 270° rotation so you can easily adjust your lighting in three different directions. At the front, two panels are available in separate slots: a reflector that can help fill in shadows when bouncing light upwards, and a wide-angle diffuser that helps soften your light when shooting directly at the subject. Complementing these panels is the ability of the flash to work as a wireless slave, making it a great secondary light source in an outdoor shoot. Offering recycle times of up to four seconds, the 750II runs on four separately available AA batteries and includes a convenient storage bag and small stand. Eight levels of output control, from 1/1 to 1/128

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