A Good external Flash for SX10 is ?

[Hasitha]

I want to buy a external Flash for my SX10 is, what you guys recommend for it ? I like to see few options for I can go for one.

Something good for Macro photos ..
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[JustShootin']

Check this thread - http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=698562

[dan j]

I used the 430EX II. It was bulky, but it had bounce and swivel. If I was buying it today I'd probably buy the 270EX unless I needed the 430EX.

dan

[originalstarlite]

Check this thread - http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=698562
It is working for me. See my comments @ that other thread.

[Jon]

I was using the 420EX on my SX1 Saturday (smallest flash I have):

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Yes, that's the real Hope Diamond. In its case at the Smithsonian. And that's the full, uncropped, shot resized to fit here. I wouldn't have gotten this with anything but a P&S with external flash and fold-out screen except by "spray-and-pray". There were mobs around the display case, so between the crowd and the case I had to hold the camera up angled down and compose on the flip-out screen. The 420EX gave me increased flash-lens separation and made the angle of the flash to the case even more extreme, thus less likely to reflect back into the picture.

Focus could be a tad better, but the central column the diamond is resting on rotates, so it may have moved a tad between when I focused and when I shot. It actually pauses every 90 deg. of rotation, but square-on isn't the optimal angle to shoot it from as then you get lots of light bounced straight back into the lens - so oodles of flare.
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[Hasitha]

420EX is great but its big and its pricey.

[Jon]

The 420EX is the older model. It's going for $110-$150 in Marketplace here (and going quite fast, I might add).