Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT Not bad!

[Mark Elberson]

I bought (2) Canon Speedlite 600EX-RTs and gave them a pretty good workout over the weekend. My 1st impressions are very favorable. Here's what I liked about them, they WORK! Turn them on, hit the wireless button and shoot. That's it. If you are interested I can do a distance test but Syl Arena over at http://pixsylated.com/blog/ has already done so and I'd put more faith in his testing practices than mine :-) I can say that while scouting a location I went beyond the working distance of the these flashes. They even had the courtesy to tell me so via a beep and the "Link" light turning from green to red. As soon as I walked back to the transmission zone they quickly went back to green. Over the course of a portrait session (about an hour) I had ZERO misfires!

I have another session this weekend where I am sure they will be used. I’ll update this thread as I continue to work with these impressive small lights.