11 Photography Items You Should Never Pay Full Price For

I orginally got the idea for this article from another written by Jim Harmer over at Improve Photography.

I have taken the liberty of expanding on a couple of my favorites on his list and I’ll send you back to his original article before we are done here. So here’s the list

#1 Speedlights

Did You Know You Can Get 4 Speedlights and a Radio Transmitter for under $600?

There are a variety of very popular budget Speedlight’s on the market today. One set of photographers will tell you they are complete junk while another will totally swear by them. I personally use them and have never had any problems. You can purchase a great setup at 25% of the cost of brand name.

At the front of the pack when it comes to budget Speedlight’s is a company called Yongnuo. These are the flashes I shoot with. In the pictures below you’ll see 4 of their most recent and expensive flashes. I have included a video demo of these in action on the next page as well.

These are the YONGNUO YN600EX-RT Master TTL Flash Speedlite for Canon Flashes. They are almost the exact same thing as the Canon 600EX-RT Speedlite Flash. The big difference is the price. You can pick up the YONGNUO YN600EX-RT Master TTL Flash Speedlite for Canon for $127.50 on Amazon right now and you can get free shipping with a prime account. The Canon 600EX-RT costs $499 with free prime shipping. So total cost of 4 Flashes is $510 just barely above the cost of one Canon Flash.

Add to that the on camera controller. The Canon ST-E3-RT Speedlite Transmitter is $264.00 with Amazon Prime. The YONGNUO YN-E3-RT E3-RT E3RT TTL Flash Speedlite Wireless Transmitter for Canon is only $86.96 with prime.

Canon setup grand total $2260.00
Yongnou setup grand total $596.96
GRAND TOTAL SAVINGS= $1663.04

GO TO THE NEXT PAGE TO SEE THIS SETUP IN ACTION