Neewer 750II TTL Flash Speedlite with LCD Display for Nikon D7200 D7100 D7000 D5500 D5300 D5200 D5100 D5000 D3300 D3200 D3100 D3000 D700 D600 D500 D90 D80 D70 D60 D50 and Other Nikon DSLR Cameras

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I really wanted to knock off one star because the motor is extremely noisy, and may not be suitable for certain situations where you need to quiet. But after looking this flash, checking out the menus, the build quality, I just cant remove a star for that. This is a fine piece of gear, well built, and nearly every option available in the $250 - $400 speed lights. The TTL feature works seamlessly with my Nikon D200, the zoom is a little bit slow, but thats no problem, other than it being noisy, the light output is great as well but can be a little to focused when trying to shoot close ups, I suggest using the bounce card. Its very intuitive, easy to use, especially in TTL, you can literally attach it to the camera and shoot straight out of the box. I will be shooting some portraits in four days, and will edit my review to reflect my opinion of this flash after seeing how well it performs. The list of features is quite amazing for a $50 speed light... Flash mode: TTL, M, MULTI Wireless triggering distance: 20--25m indoor, 10--15m outdoor Dimensions: 60*190*78mm Vertical rotation angle: 0-90 degrees Horizontal rotation angle: 0-270 degrees Power supply: 4XAA size batteries (Alkaline or Ni-MH are usable) Additional features: Sound indicator, PC port, Power saving mode and over heating protection Color temperature: 5600k High GN: 58 Wireless trigger sensor Electrical socket outlet PC synchronous interface Recycle time 3 second (with 4 pcs AA alkaline cell) Support Multi-flash lighting Application (S1/S2 mode) Power saving mode Accurate brightness control LCD display Metal hot shoe Support front curtain synchronous Temperature detection Automatically (overheating protection) Memory function Comparing options to cost, I believe this wins over my Nikon SB 800. This is simply an amazing deal, and I highly recommend this product, for $50 I would happily order one or two more to use as slave flashes for more complex photo shoots. I have included several high quality photos to try and do this item justice, I am very happy with my purchase, and i am pretty sure you will be as well. This item requires four AA batteries, so make you purchase some.

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Prior to using this flash, our family photos looked dull and color less. If we used the built-in flash, everything was washed out. We take mostly indoor photos of our family using our Nikon D3300. We are very surprised on the difference this flash makes. We are by no means professionals. I turned on the camera, turned on the flash, and did not change any of the functions. Maybe I will figure out those at some point, but maybe not. For basic use, which is what I need it for, this works perfectly. Example photos. Taken while pointed directly at a very reflective chest. Photo #1, built-in flash Photo #2, no flash Photo #3, VK750 flash (pointed up, using bounce card and diffuser)

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I think this is a must-have for the value. It does NOT have High Speed Sync - which was a disappointment, but Ive found it to still be a 5 star value. What I love most about this is the exposures - the power seems to be consistent and it works well with a diffuser. Exposures seem to always be accurate without needing compensation! wow I love using this for a bounce - others Ive found just dont have quite the consistency Ive come to love and rely on from this one. The zoom range is from 18-180, but I dont think it is actually as wide as 18 and the 180 might be slightly overstated also. In my humble opinion, this is simply a reliable workhorse of a speedlite that nobody should overlook at this price!

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This flash is EXACTLY what you want if you are only an occasional flash user, but want something that produces better results than the pop of flash on your Nikon DSLR, and you do not choose to tie up several hundred dollars in the admittedly excellent Nikon Speedlights. I ordered my first one with the idea of sending it as a gift to my friend who is a budding photographer and who gets my old Nikon gear when I upgrade from time to time. It arrived today, and I decided to test it out. I opened up the box and did not even consult the manual. I popped in some fresh batteries and put it on a D7000 I had laying around. I just switched left it as it came out of the box, which is defaulted to TTL. I then took a series of shots with direct flash, and bounce flash. Direct flash looks good, bounce flash looks great. The unit zooms automatically and is accurate, but do remember if it is not zooming to wake up your Nikon if it has been a bit between shots. I repeated the same shots with my Nikon SB-600 and my Nikon SB-800 and they were identical in results to this flash. I then, without ever opening the manual, was easily able to set up remote TTL flash. I just set my D7000 in Commander Mode, set the Neewer flash to S2 mode and was able to fire it off camera with great results, again indistinguishable from my Nikon Speedlights. This unit is clearly a knock-off of the SB-800 and a very good one, Construction quality is not quite as good, and this unit may not last quite as long, but given that a used SB-800 is $300 and this one is $52 brand new, youd have to break six of these before you lost money on the deal. As much s I love my Nikon gear, unless you are using your Speedlight daily, just buy one. If you want to play with more than one light, these make great spares. I was so impressed that since this is a gift, I just ordered two more for myself!

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Well after almost 1 year and only occasional use, it is kaput. I will be honest I had enjoyed the flash on each occasion up to this week. I used it on camera and with a 3m cord for simple off camera use usually battling bright Phoenix AZ sunshine for midday portraits. I have a big shoot coming up in a week, so I was fiddling with it trying to make sure I had my settings and familiarity with the speed light dialed in. Well after 5 shots it froze up. I swapped out fresh batteries and one good flash and then 2-3 flickers, nothing. So again I swapped another set of newly charged batteries, thinking maybe I had stale batteries. One pop and nothing else. Sometimes too good to be true is, at $50 this is a bargain but nothing should be disposable. I think I shot literally 150 images with this flash, my D500 has no flash so when I searched my EXIF data in my photo library for images using Flash and then took out any cell phone images there were under 200 images since Dec 16 last year using a flash. Maybe I got a dud of a unit, manufacturing variance? Maybe this is what is to be expected? This is simply my review of the flash unit I have and will be disassembling to see if it is something simple or more serious. I always carry it and the modifiers separately in a padded case, never dropped or handled poorly, even stored with no batteries to prevent accidental corrosion. Good luck, as I said while working it was a really convenient and inexpensive flash, and the tel feature was really accurate in metering for the scene. Update, Neewer support site also not responding and Service Ticket page on site for return auth is disabled.

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LOVE THIS FLASH! Ive done a few portrait sessions with this flash and it works great. The final test will be the wedding that Im shooting this weekend. will update after Update on the flash- used it during a wedding. pics came out just fine. and I only went through ONE set of batteries! I couldnt believe it! Mind you, I wasnt bursting any pic with the flash. It still worked amazingly for the price

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Ive only had the VK750-II for a few days and have done nothing but try and gain some familiarity with the flash. But made one discovery that may help other people whove discovered the same. One thing that I struggled with, and Ive seen various questions online about, is with the Zoom feature. Typically, you would press the Zoom button and use the D-pad to change the zoom level. I noticed that this feature appeared to work intermittently, and struggled to determine why. As other reviews have mentioned, the manual is pretty bad and was no help at all in figuring this out. What Ive discovered is that the there is an internal switch that is triggered when you pull the Diffuser out. This switch seems to set Zoom to 14%, you lose the ability to control Zoom, and Zoom does not adjust as you change the lens zoom level. Once you slide the Diffuser back into the flash body, manual control of Zoom is restored and again automatically adjusts when you change the cameras Zoom level. I hope this helps to answer the question for others whove been unable to figure this out.

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My original is close to one year old but recently stopped working. I purchased a second after thinking the first had died. But...... My advice is to open the unit if it stops working. My first unit would do everything, but fire. After opening the case, I noticed a white wire had burned free from the circuit board. I carefully soldered it back and it works again. If you decide on a repair beware, it still will shock you. If yours has died check it before you toss it. There are four white wires which more than likely get very hot if the flash is getting a good workout. My failure started with a dimming/flickering display. FYI the screws are under the rubber caps on the side as well as two next to the label. The caps are held on with adhesive, that will stick if slightly heated. Function wise, Id recommend the Neewer plastic diffuser. It will greatly improve diffusion over the built in cards. This is a great flash for taking the workload off of your more expensive flashes. They do not have SBxxx power, but if youre on a budget or need decent fill flashes they are good options. Id recommend two. The assumed failure could have ruined my first paying shoot.

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3/22/18...Update. Finally got to use my replacement flash at our annual woodcarving show. Impressed! In the "bad old days", B.D. (Before Digital) We were always warned to "form" our main flash capacitors by firing them manually 3 or 4 times, to "wake them up". The first exposures I took were underexposed, but a +3 compensation on the flash cured that. As I took more photos, exposure compensation dropped from 3, to 2, past 1, and finally leveled out at 0. My Nikon flash doesnt need that sort of "warm up", but, at 5X the price, youd expect it no to. A GOOD, basic flash, with a good set of features that work! Some photos I took once the flash was warmed up. I really liked this flash, It worked well, until it didnt. Great features! Reasonable guide number, fairly light, modes, a delight to use, bright LCD display, easy adjustment, the head depresses -7 degrees for macro, and thermal protection, to keep us speedlite commandos ("Strobists"?) from burning it out prematurely! It comes with a nice stand, too. The flash is a Christmas Present from my daughter, and I really, really wanted to like it! When I first hooked it up to my camera, I loved the metal hot shoe, but after a few exposures, I noticed the color balance was not ~5600 Kelvin for daylight or flash, but more down the range to ~2700 K, which is Tungsten light. It also started underexposing by 2 stops or more, and exposure compensation didnt help. Just hoping I had gotten a flash that was built on a Monday or Friday, I returned the defective unit, (Thank You, Amazon!) and ordered a replacement. It came this morning, and the Postman hadnt reached the end of our Cul de sac, when I had a fresh set of Eneloop batteries in it, and started testing. Good results!, Proper exposure from semi-macro to living room distances. In the midst of all this , my cameras LCD screen went blank! Oshoot!" (or words to that effect, sez I. Also "DRAT!" User error! I found that I had accidentally changed my shutter speed to 1/500 sec, which was over the flashs sync speed of 1/320 sec. Farble corrected, the flash performed flawlessly! Then...WHY only 4 stars? Longevity and reliability have not yet been tested. I dont expect that for the price, the build quality will match that of Nikon or Canons flashes, but for the majority of us, I suspect it will do just fine. If that proves to be true, I will upgrade.

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So Ive had the chance to use the 750II for a little while now and here are my impressions of this unit. for the price, you cant go wrong, I had previously purchased the NM561 speedlight and that one left few things to be desired that the 750II includes for just a few bucks more, Im upset at myself for not coming across the 750II first. Overall impression, the flash looks sturdy and legit like a brand name speedlight, a big but small detail is the fact that the PC terminal is threaded, that is a huge for anyone using triggers to keep connections secure. The flash head swings 180 degrees CCwise but only 90 degrees clockwise (reverse from their 561 unit), not a deal breaker but a big bummer for me since their other units are oposite rotation my namebrand speedlights swing 180 both directions. The terminal for the battery pack is the same as other flashes so im able to use by external battery source with this unit. I like that the power button is a switch like the name brand and not a button as their lower unit. Another huge for me was the fact that the flash head zooms when the lens is zoom and manually on manual mode as well. These details are what made me bang my head against the wall for buying the 561 unit which lacks all these features. Now for the actual functionality of the unit. My intended purpose for these units is primarily off camera use in manual mode, hence why I originally bought the 561 units and saved a few bucks and got a lot of headaches. The menu/LCD layout seems pretty intuitive to me, very similar to the much more expensive name brand units, flash power, EV comp value and flash zoom are controlled by the middle directional button and the mode is controlled by it own dedicated button, no rocket science degree needed here. As a manual offcamera unit, this thing works great, i can control the zoom level and power level, and the sync cable is secured by the threaded terminal, and the unit does NOT turn off after long period of inactivity (the 561 does) exacly what I was looking for. AS a MAIN unit mounted on the camera, thats a different story (again, this is in my experience with my shooting conditions). I decided to use this unit on camera since I was having some tech difficulties getting my other units to work with my triggers and my whole setup. I shoot a lot on manual mode and do a lot of EV comp with the flash when ever its in use. I found, in my experience and shooting conditions, the TTL does not work very well with the camera in manual mode, or any mode but with EV values adjusted on camera, or EV adjusted on the speedlight and in close proximity. Ive had the unit cranked down to -2.5 EV and the flash still packs a big punch wich is not desireable in close range situations, eg a person within 5ft will be overexposed when the settings are set to underexpose, particularly with spot metering or centerweighed. Ive had to often times change the mode to manual on the flash in situation when the TTL is more ideal due to variations in distance to the subject are constantly changing. In manual mode you get too close, its over exposed, get too far, underexpose. so situations like these would be better with ttl but Ive had instances where the ttl just didnt perform as expected. I do normally shoot bounce or with a diffused dome on the flash, been doing this for almost a decade so I know what Ive come to expect from my speedlight units. In normal conditions when EV values are not adjusted either on camera or flash, and when my subjects are not within 5 feet of me, this unit performs as expected. I would assume that would be the majority of users, so in normal shooting situations this flash has performed very well, a bit on the brighter side but acceptable. Only issue is that it drains the batteries faster than my other units. I have not had any issues with this unit in regards to overheating. Overall this unit is a keeper since my main use is as off camera manual flash, I will keep shooting my name brand unit as a main but this will do for a backup in a pinch, once you get to know the pitfalls of the unit within your working conditions you can adapt and troubleshoot with ease. If youre straight up auto mode, this unit should work well and save you a few hundred bucks. Im actually thinking of selling my name brand units that I use as off camera manual units and just replace with these. In case a unit breaks, I can digest replacing a unit for around 50 bucks than a unit for over 500bucks. I shoot weddings and portraits, On camera flash is not a big part of my shooting setup but I always carry a unit as a ready to go backup plan when things go south or in a pinch when im not around my off camera units or in a run. if your shooting relies more heavily on on-camera flash, certainly give this unit a try, worst case you just spent 50bucks and not over 500 and can keep this for a solid off camera option.

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