Cheap alternative to the canon st-e2 speedlite transmitter :)

Cheap alternative to the canon st-e2 speedlite transmitter!!

I've been looking into buying the canon st-e2for a while now as I've wanted to use my speedlite flashgun off and away from my camera.

Canon have recently put up all there prices in the Uk and the thing has gone up by about £90, for this reason I looked into alternatives and found this brilliant little thing:-

YongNuo Wireless Remote Shutter Trigger
http://www.dealextreme​.com/details.dx/sku.13​089

Its a chines built reciever and transmitter thing allows you to fire the flash away from your camera and wait for this.... it only costs £15! The canon st-e2 costs around £200!

I bought the thing off amazon and it arrived two days later. These devices offer very good value for money, it had 4 different channels and transmitter runs on 2 AAA batteries.

Now im not going to lie, the build quality of this device is quite poor but for £15 you really cant complain! Id def recormend it for anyone who wants to start playing around with off camera flash.

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It doesn't do the auto ettl flash control, though, right?

tkbslc wrote in post #7411705
It doesn't do the auto ettl flash control, though, right?

No.

Yeah, I was assuming it was similar to the cactus triggers, but had a sliver of hope there was some new ettl cheap wireless trigger.

I would hardly call that an alternative to the ST-E2. There are many other devices on the market that allows you to trigger a remote flash without ETTL.

well no it doesnt support auto ettl flash control but lets be realistic and look at the price.. its only £15.. thats what about $20 USD?!

Price wise they are very nice. As long as it fires every time, which a lot of them don't do. But again, you can look at the price and say you get what you pay for - and that's not a slam of the product. It's a realistic evaluation of price/reported performance.

The ST-E2 is no competition for those eBay radio units.

I still prefer my Cybersyncs to either of those alternatives.

Besides no E-TTL (obviously the big thing) there is also no AF assist so it really only has one minor feature when compared to the ST-E2, which is remote manual triggering. It is more in competition, in price and features, with the cactus. And yea, Gadget Infinity sells YuongNuo stuff so I wouldn't be surprised if it is the same but rebranded.

It sure beats the ST-E2 on size, though.

(It made me wonder if there was ever an ST-E1 but evidently, not.)

I'm not sure where you get your prices from but you could get an ST-E2 for about £125 before the price rise and still get them for £165 delivered now. take a look here and ignore the Amazon price as it is incorrect.
http://www.cameraprice​buster.co.uk/prod201.h​tml

they are just cactus ebay triggers im pretty sure!

but that price is good1

The only time these cheapo triggers don't work . . . is when you really need them!
I had a couple of sets that were great for practicing off camera manual flash, but every time I set them up for a real shoot they let me down. Very embarassing. Gave them away and bought the Wizards. . . love 'em!
I guess you still just get what you pay for.

PT-04 = same as all the ebay ghetto wizards. If you get a good set they rock (for the price), and if you don't shoot ettl even more so. I loved mine, I probably won't get as lucky if I try to replace them though =(

Stez wrote in post #7412419
I'm not sure where you get your prices from but you could get an ST-E2 for about £125 before the price rise and still get them for £165 delivered now. take a look here and ignore the Amazon price as it is incorrect.
http://www.cameraprice​buster.co.uk/prod201.h​tml

Bang on, I just bought one from Warehouse Express, £169.00 next day delivery,
its dearer than your £125, but not ninety quid dearer, still, £15 quid's OK if you only get a hundred shots out of it before you bin it.

Did search for YongNuo, and this came up. Are they specific to Canon Speedlights? I'm looking for a similar, cheap, wireless trigger for a Sigma 500DG ST, but it's proving a bit difficult.

I was wondering, with PW you need two... and a flash.

With the canon st-e2 do you only need the transmiter and your canon flash?