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Pro's: its compact, good build quality, decent amount of lighting, uncomplicated to use, cheap cons: plastic hot shoe, non swivel, no zoom, always fires at full power, no power controls I bought this to test and see if I would like to go on to a strobist photography using it as an off-camera flash with some radio triggers or optical triggers (totally recommend buying optical triggers that are compatible with ttl or preflash). It fires a good amount of light for a small room but that's about it. Its good quality build makes it a good investment and its an ideal on-camera flash if you don't want to drain your camera's built in flash. I am also using an older model Canon 177a with a power regulating dial at the back which is much more useful on a radio receiver when used for this purpose.Read full review
This flash is designed for Canon film cameras. Canon digital SLR cameras need a totally different way of working compared to cameras that measured the exposure in real time from the reflection off the film being exposed. Digital cameras with digital sensors can't do this. So when you connect one of these older flashes to a digital camera you only get full power output from the flash. But for some reason the 200E flash does not even fire when triggered from my Canon 30D (the camera does work with lots of other flashes). This is odd. To get it to trigger I covered the four extra contacts (leave the larger X-sync contact) and then it work. But again, only at full power. The listed guide number is 20m or 65ft. That is an exaggeration. Measured with a flash meter, and confirmed with actual photos, the true guide number is about 10m or 40ft. The output is only half of what Canon claims but this is no different than most other manufacture's claims for flashes. As long as they all lie about the same you can do comparisons. The output of this flash is only about 1/4 of a full sized flash. Practically speaking this flash will give you a good exposure with a subject at 10ft, an ISO set for 200, and a F5.6 aperture setting. And you can juggle the values to give you closer or further range but you have to do the math in your head (not that hard) rather than the camera doing it. That is if you are using a digital SLR. It should work fine with a Canon film camera with the 5 contacts on the hotshoe. You can't adjust the flash to be able to bounce it off a wall or ceiling. But with the low power output you probably would not want to do bounce flash even if you could. Use this flash if you need to have a small flash. If you need a small flash for digital than look at the 220EX or the newer 270EX. If you pay more than $20 for this flash (including shipping) then I think you paid too much. I've paid between $10 and $15 for my four (including shipping). If you need a flash for a film camera then consider the 420EZ or 430EZ from Canon or some of the off brands like Vivitar or Sunpak. The 420EZ/430EZ are far more flexible (literally). Do a search for "Strobist" to see interesting things people do with camera flashes. This will open your eyes to better flash photography than is possible with direct flash (as is only possible with the 200E flash). So to sum up. The 200E is a reasonably well designed (electronic design) flash for film only Canon cameras. Unfortunately the power output is low and you are stuck with ugly direct flash (but sometimes that is good enough).Read full review
this is a great item for the price, it is a nice spear flash it's really light to carry around, it much better than any on camera flash for your point and shoot cameras. i use it as a back light as a slave for product photgraphy and the recycle time it's fast as hell. it fits everywere and if you have a 5d and dont want to carry around your 580.... just do not expect the same power LOL cons: it is missing the pilot
for someone who si looking for a name brand camera flash (CANON) with TTL capabilities, this would be a good place to start. I purchased this flash for my daughters camera, a Rebel EOS XTi. I was pleased with the small size and ease of use. What I was surprised to find out thought was the flash did not work with my daughters camera. It did however work on my CANON EOS 1D Mark II. This puzzled me and I went to speak to another photographer and he told me that the capabilites of this flash are limited and it may not work with her camera, to be sure I borrowed my dads camera, also a CANON EOD REBEL XTi, it did not work on his either. THe flash works well, fires every time when I use it on my personal camera, but beware, it may not work on your camera. If you are serious about using a flash on your digital DSLR, I would find another flash to use. Sorry Canon but this one is a bit too cheap. and it does not fit the bill for a decent bounce flash. Sorry but I can not recommend this to anyone.Read full review
I bought this flash for my Canon EOS film SLR's, particularly for the EOS 1n that does not have a built in flash. I wanted a dedicated flash unit so I would not need to mess with shutter speeds manually. It is cute and very basic and seems built well. Very simple to use just pop on a camera and turn it on. It is not the most powerful flash but is good for most things. These older type Speedlites do not work properly on digital SLR's. You can find these on Ebay inexpensively.
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