YONGNUOYN600EX-RT II Wireless Flash Speedlite with Optical Master and TTL HSS for Canon

Short review, just wanted to get one on here since none have been posted yet!This is the second iteration of the YN600EX-RT, and is therefore the equivalent to Canon's second iteration of their 600EX-RT (which is the 600EX II-RT).I'm an amateur experimenting with flash photography and got a single 600EX II-RT to start. I quickly moved to off-camera flash. Optical control using my Canon EOS 80D as a master worked fine, but I really wanted the on-camera TTL control of all the flash settings, which requires radio. I couldn't afford to buy another Canon 600EX II-RT at their price point and I'd seen Yongnuo flashes everywhere, even among well-known professionals, so I decided to check them out. I almost bought the YN600EX-RT but thankfully thought to just check their official website to see if they had an update to match Canon's update, and sure enough they did - this YN600EX-RT II!Being so much cheaper than the Canons (1 Canon = 4 Yongnuo), I decided to buy two to use as radio off-camera slaves and use my Canon as a radio master. They all work wonderfully (Canon master, Yongnuo slaves).As expected and as others mentioned for other Yongnuo models, build quality isn't quite on par with Canon. There's no push-button release for rotating or angling the flash head; rather, you simply have to apply enough force to overcome the notches. The amount of force required makes you second-guess yourself at first, wondering if you're about to break something. Given this design, it makes sense to find some kind of grease between the body and flash head. It's not excessive and leaking all over things, but I did notice it was there you might be able to swipe some off the edges with your fingers. Overall build quality is fine though. Not tanks, but not overly cheap either. Quick list:- No push-button release for rotating and angling of flash head; requires a lot of force to turn- Set button in center of selection wheel rotates with the wheel (so "Set" can be upside-down, etc.)- Flashes arrived at maximum LCD contrast; clearing settings and resetting to default actually sets medium contrast which is pretty weak/hard to see and might make you wonder if your screen just "broke" during your reset.. it didn't, just go bump the contrast all the way back up.Again I'm no professional, but overall I think these are great especially considering four of them can be had for the price of a single Canon 600EX II-RT. Unless these all fail very soon, this definitely seems to be the way to go unless your pockets are just overflowing with cash. So thanks, Yongnuo!The various official steps for updating the firmware seemed inaccurate to me. The first comment on this review contains steps that worked. I updated my firmware on two flashes from 1.10 to 1.12 (downloaded from YONGNUO's official website; unable to navigate via the site, I instead found the official product page via Google search and the firmware link is at the bottom of that page).

I can't give you a lab-level analysis of these flashes, but I can say that they work great. Yeah, I wish someday that someone would buck the trend of putting horrible user-interfaces into these things and give us controls that are more straightforward and intuitive, but I guess annoying interfaces are tradition here.I use these in my real estate photography business and thank goodness these are reasonably priced. In the last 10 jobs, I have dropped 3 of these off my light stands (my helper didn't tighten them down properly!) Sadly, the two that hit the hard floor stopped working. The one that hit the carpet survived. Had these been $600 Canon units, they probably wouldn't have survived either and I would have gone broke replacing them.I also use the Yongnuo flash controller with these and it works great. I also have one Canon 430II (?) that I have attached to a Yongnuo adapter/receiver that turns it into a wireless slave, and that works perfectly as well.So, yeah, it would be great if they could survive a six-foot drop or have a more user-friendly UI, but they are a tremendous value and work great.Hope this helps!

For a cheap knock-off of an overpriced hotshoe flash, this thing is surprisingly not terrible. On a practical level it's a 3/5 star item, but for the price it's easily a 4/5. You will not find a better value at this price point, period.Pros:Powerful outputReliable wireless system when using Yongnuo triggersWorks as well as expensive, first party flash unitsCons:Doesn't play well with Pocketwizards/Cactus V6 wireless triggersBuild quality could be betterEasy to overheat when using an external battery packI currently own 3 of these flashes, having owned 5 over the years with 2 being broken by falling off a stand or being dropped.These flashes are finicky when used with triggers not made by Yongnuo. Just this past weekend I was using one of these lights with my Cactus V6s and Alien Bees at a wedding and the flash refused to fire out of the blue when triggered by the Cactus triggers. Turning the flash off and on again generally fixes these sorts of issues, but this time I had to restore the flash to factory settings before it would trigger again. My Alien Bees continued to fire reliably while the speedlight just decided it was break time.That said, I have had zero issue getting these flashes to fire remotely with Yonguno's triggersAs for build quality, I've broken 2 of these flashes in the space of year by having them fall off a stand or get dropped. You NEED to handle them carefully. Dropping one from standing height could easily break it. That said, they're still tough enough. I don't care how much your flash costs, dropping it the wrong way will probably break it.Really, my only build quality complaint is the rubber gasket that reinforces the locking mechanism falls off constantly and is required to ensure the flash is locked down tight to stands and cameras. I'm sure some glue would fix it, but that's assuming you can find the gasket once it falls off on the dance floor.Finally, you will overheat these flashes quickly if firing at anything more than 1/8th power while using a battery pack. Without a battery pack, TTL mode also tends to overheat them when used for extended periods. This is mainly due to the pre-flash and generally high output that TTL typically delivers in dark environments.Basically, if you need a lot of light, you'll get about 30 or so minutes of shooting before the flash starts warning you with overheating indicators. It's not uncommon for speedlights to overheat, especially more powerful ones like this unit. But it'd be nice if it had a mode that slowed the recycle times down a bit when getting close to overheating so you can keep shooting without the flash shutting itself down as quickly.Overall I'd recommend these flashes to anyone who needs a speedlight and is willing to buy into Yonguno's trigger system. For the money, it's tough to beat them unless you go with a company like Godox.

O flash foi feito para ser o espelho do flash original Canon, que custa mais do dobro do preço, porém é "CÓPIA PERFEITA!" ele acopla perfeitamente as sapatas e dispara controlado pelas câmeras, e no caso da T7i, ele (flash) nem precisa estar acoplado na sapata, pois ela o dispara por Wi-Fi, me permitindo muito mais liberdade em onde jogar a luz. ao fotografar... Seu tempo de recuperação do capacitor entre as fotos é de cerca de 2 segundos, e não é um devorador de bateria. Uso pilhas recarregáveis da duracel, e ele faz130 disparos, o que é mais que suficiente em festa, ou ensaio. Estou super contente com a compra

Super zum Fotografieren.

Le Yongnuo YN600EX-RT II est un bon flash, en tous cas d'un bon rapport qualité-prix comparé à son équivalent chez Canon (Canon Flash Speedlite 600EX-RT II - environ 800 €...). J'en ai acheté 2 pour composer un système multiflash en complément de mon Canon Flash Speedlite 600EX-RT II.Les 2 Yongnuo payés 166 € chacun chez Amazon fonctionnent correctement.Rien à redire donc sur l'exemplaire noté ici, mais un autre que je n'ai payé que 141,10 € était bugué ( en mode slave comme en mode master, aucune connexion radio possible, entre flashes comme avec le module Canon ST-E3-RT ) ; j'ai donc retourné ce Yongnuo bugué à Amazon.ATTENTION donc à bien vérifier un maximum de fonctions dès la livraison de ce flash...

Sono molto soddisfatto dell'acquisto, veloce e preciso finora non mi ha mai deluso, lo utilizzo in studio con un altro uguale e mi garantisce una sufficiente illuminazione per le foto. Semplice e intuitivo l' uso e visto il prezzo credo che non ce ne sia uno migliore sul mercato, sicuramente gli originali canon (anche se non li ho provati) ma con prezzi sicuramente più alti.

A superb light plus driver for other speedight