Brilliant

V good value and quick service

Brilliant piece of kit ..well worth the price... recommend to anyone.

Seems to be excellent value for money, early days

Summary: versatile; powerful; ‘quality’ feel & build; easy to use both on- and off-camera – high-capacity NiMh batteries last well – zoom a bit noisy – highly recommended, especially at the price.Arrived on-time, well-presented in high-quality packaging with a decent carry case (not rain proof), diffuser hood (additional to the built-in screens) and a really useful plastic mount for off-camera work. The manual isn't too bad! An ‘electronics’ smell when unwrapped took a while to disperse.On-camera: bulky but still OK for handheld. Talks happily to my Canon 70D which can access its internal settings. Powerful, easily lit 15m+ distance @ wide 18mm/ISO400 and I had to reduce output by 3 stops for a 20m daylight fill-in! Flexible tilt/swivel for bounce = softer indoor portraits. A bit noisy following the camera’s zoom lens.Off-camera: good for side- and back-lit shots and great fun! Set to E-TTL Wireless Slave, it triggers from the camera’s flash (ignores focus-assist flashes). The supplied plastic stand works well on its own, and can be tripod-mounted which is really useful. The trigger sensor is pretty sensitive, I got 20m+ from the camera on a dull day (point the front sensor at the camera and tilt/swivel the flash head towards the subject) and 10m+ when out of sight of the camera’s flash (behind the subject for back-lighting) - I find the confirmation beep and front LED helpful. My compact cameras also happily trigger it in S1 mode.It has the usual modes and options (high-speed sync, rear curtain, bracketing, etc.), a respectable 3s recycle time with upto 12fps at 1/16th power (I could only test to 70D’s max 7fps) and a really fast (upto 199Hz) strobe mode to capture fast-moving subjects (I used 50Hz to capture images of a falling die in a single exposure).I can’t fault K&F’s KF-882, it compares well with the much more expensive Canon 580EX and is great to use – it’s solid, powerful enough for anything I’ll ever need and works great off-camera with its really useful stand.I normally shoot outdoor/wildlife so wasn't sure I’d be able to make good use of a flash unit but this baby is a brilliant piece of kit - I took these night-time shots (off-camera) within minutes of opening the box, beautiful textures and colours like sunlight through the window... (See Images)

This review is for the K&F Concept® KF-882 Master Flash Speedlite for Canon tested with a Canon 6DI’ve been using manual flashguns for a few years now and find them to be an amazingly inexpensive way to obtain easily portable, relatively powerful, light. I found them especially useful when I was shooting pet portraits at dog shows – see attached image for the kind of result you can achieve with just three flashguns like the KF-882 and a radio trigger. Anyway, when I was offered the chance to try this flashgun out I had to say yes.The flashes I use normally have a Guide Number (GN) of 56 and go down to 1/64th power. The big difference between mine and the hugely more expensive Canon, Nikon, Metz… is that they have no eTTL. In other words they don’t talk to the camera and you can’t control the exposure, or light output from the camera.This KF-882 claims to be just as powerful (GN56), but it has eTTL functionality too.First things first. This is a hefty beast, quite bulky, and weighing in at just over 18oz. This flashgun, just like my others, runs from 4xAA batteries. I’ve started using NiMh recghargeables just to keep the battery cost, and the waste, down. The battery cover flips up and remains attached to the body. The on/off button is clearly marked and requires holding down for a second or two in order to turn the flashgun on. The flash fits into the camera’s hot shoe easily and there is the usual locking wheel to keep it in place.On first use, I compared it with one of my other flashes. I found the KF-882s zoom function a little fiddly to use. You need to press the zoom button so that the zoom setting flashes (and then one of the unlabeled (up/down/left/right) buttons to change the zoom value. There are ten settings in the range 18mm to 180mm. On the widest setting there was obvious vignetting in the corner of the image – lens set to same value. My comparison flash illuminated the room evenly. However, leaving the lens set to 18mm but with the K&F flash zoom on 180mm a useful spotlight effect was created. I can see this being a quite useful, though probably unintentional, feature. Pulling out the diffuser, but leaving everything else the same, completely removed the vignetting and gave even illumination – so no real problem there. The little white reflector that is stored with the diffuser, refused to emerge after it had been out twice. I rarely use this feature on a flash gun, though it is nice not to have to carry around a scrap of white card and a rubber band, so I don’t see it’s loss as a major problem unless you make use of this accessory a lot. That said, I think the mechanism for holding it in place needs re-thinking because there is clearly poor design/choice of materials here.A first for me with this flashgun was the inclusion of a ‘Stofen-style’ diffuser to fit over the head of the flash. I think this, in some way, makes up for the faulty reflector card.It is has three main modes: E-TTL (camera tells flash to stop when it has pushed out enough light), M (Manual), and Multi (strobe effect).The E-TTL function works better than the one on my Metz 58 AF-1 digital, and there is an easy one button press to reduce, or increase flash power in steps of one third of a stop (EV) so making it very easy to adjust exposure without having to delve into the camera’s flash control menus.In Manual mode you get to choose the output power of the flash directly with anything from full power to 1/128th power in one stop steps. You also have two optical slave settings S1 and S2. Choose one of these and the flash will fire remotely – triggered by the light of another flash going off. I use this mode a lot with my manual flashguns and it means I only need to have one flash on camera, or no flashes on camera with one of them fired by a radio trigger, so I only need one radio receiver.In Multi mode the strobe frequency can be set as a Hz value. The range goes from 1 – 20Hz in steps of 1; from 20 – 50Hz in steps of 5Hz; from 50 – 190Hz in steps of 10Hz; and for some unknown reason there is one last jump from 190 – 199Hz. You also need to set the number of flashes. The range for this is 1 – 40 in single steps. The flash power in multi mode is set to 1/128th of full power and there is no facility to change this.With any mode there is the choice of wireless. With this you can set this flash to master or slave and group flash units in up to four groups. I would have needed several of these K&F flash units to test this feature out and I only have the one, so I can offer no comments on this aspect. But the idea is that you can control the output of flashguns assigned to each group from the master unit. This is great when you are using several guns and you need to adjust one of them because it means it can all be done from the camera position.When I first turned this on there was an annoyingly loud beep every time the flash fired. I didn’t have the instruction book to hand so I just stabbed buttons at random until the little music icon, and the beep, eventually disappeared. However, it seems to have gone forever and I have no idea what I did that removed it. The instruction booklet tells me that a long press on the fn button will turn it on and off, but all it seems to do is bring up function menu. No great loss as far as I can see.I like this flashgun. It is powerful enough for most things you’d want a flash for. It has almost everything a gun costing over five times the price has and works pretty well. My only niggles are the jammed reflector card, and the seeming randomness of the menus – there’s nothing intuitive about them and you definitely need to read the manual to get the most out of this unit. For the price, I think all of that is tolerable, though maybe unacceptable on the Canon 600EX-RT which is only a little more sophisticated than this and over 5 times as expesive. But I use portable flash exclusively off-camera, and frequently on stands, fired by a radio trigger, so for me it does everything I need it to which is fire by optical slave and allow me to adjust the power output easily – all the rest is a bonus. I think this is great value for money.This K&F flashgun was supplied to me for review purposes.

Really handy and useful, I use it with the flash cap provided and have tested it both in an outdoor and studio setting. The flash is subtle yet effective, it fits really well into my canon and it's not too heavy, making it ideal for all kinds of shoots. I really recommend this to anyone thinking of purchasing a flash, the affordable price is a big plus too!

Good flash good design easy to understand buttons and display, I took some test shots using a 18-55 mm lens using direct flash and bounce, pictures where slightly over exposed using direct flash easily fixed using exposure control, bounce came out great just up exposure 0.7 good even exposure with subject and good fill around, can be a little blinding using direct flash for portraits recommend using the bounce. good flash would recommend as long as you familiar with using them and know how to adjust settings to suit what you are photographing.

 As you would expect at this price point, you get a lot for your money - this is an excellent flash. Build quality is very good and it feels very solid. It has all features of a modern flash but does not cost a fortune.I used it with my Nikon D60 on a hot shoe mount with the TTL metering on. I have recently tested another flash at this price point and this K&F one works just as well. It is easy to use and the LCD screen is clear and readable. It has a back-light as well which is a very useful feature. Unit takes 4 x AA batteries but be sure you are using a good rechargeable or alkaline ones. Stay away from the cheap batteries as they just do not last very long in any flash and get depleted very quickly.Unit starts up and charges very quickly and is easily keeping up with my camera in burst mode. It communicates with the camera so flash itself is showing the current aperture off the lens and adjusts the zoom in auto mode. Even in full auto mode it produces good results and makes a difference to the quality of photos.What I like about this flash:- Guide number 56 - it is quite powerful and easily copes with shooting in large rooms- Rotation - it rotates vertically and horizontally making it easy to set up the way you want- Built in wide angle diffuser does a really good job- Back lit LCD- External power connector - you do not have to use batteries if shooting in a studioCONS:- cannot complain about anything really with this flashIn the box you get a carry pouch, mini stand, additional soft diffuser and instruction manual. Manual is quite comprehensive and explains all the various settings and an how to work them.I hope you found this review informative and helpful. Thanks for reading.Visit my YouTube channel for HD quality video - you will find the link in my Amazon profile.Supplier provided me with a sample for the purpose of expressing my honest opinion about this product.

Note: The maker supplied a review sample for product testing, the opinion of the item is my own personal viewFor review I looked at the Canon version of the flash but all the features seem to be the same for the Nikon version. This model is a much more affordable dedicated flash compared to OEM makers at the same time offering "most" of the features that higher models have with the exception of a few custom settings and weather sealing there isn't a lot to separate them. Fortunately corners have not been cut on build either this has a dense feeling plastic and a big LCD display as well as the expected PC sync and external power pack ports and flip out white plastic card/wide angle diffuser. Battery door is a single thick plastic hinge (very much like my own Metz flash) it feels strong enough and makes loading the 4 x AA cells quite easy as they're in a straight line. Metal shoe with a manual screw lock it's a secure fit on the hotshoe. I've rounded up a list of points I liked and found weaker on the flash these are as follows:Areas I liked:+ Good overall bundle decent case supplied with stand (brass thread) and flash diffuser+ Fully compatible with E-TTL for metered exposures on and off the camera+ Strong feature set functionally offers just about all you want in a "dedicated camera flash"+ Supports HSS (high speed sync)+ Recycle times are quite fast from 3-4 seconds depending on power output+ Large easy to read backlit LCD display, excellent AF assist "dot" beam+ Wireless flash master and slave function with TTL, strobe flash+ Optical slave mode+ 2 year warrantyWeaker points:- Zoom motor noise somewhat unrefined (a bit audible)- Custom functions are cryptic numbers rather than a text description of the setting- No modelling light- User manual requires some translation workNotes:I fired off 35 quick succession flashes at full power with no sign of the flash overheating so this doesn't seem to be an area of concernHead rotates 180 degrees left and right and can be angled down slightlyI have no way of accurately testing the guide number I would say visually it's a little less powerful than my Metz 58AF-2 flash and probably closer to GN 50 though few will find the difference significant it does offer more power than mid level flashes from other makers. Metering was mostly consistent a little variation as you get with all flashes nothing obvious stood out though compared to other third party makers and the Canon flashes I tested it with.Operation is very simple though the manual doesn't really live up to the product it's workable but could be clearer with correct translations some strange words are used (reflective flash for bounce flash for example) it's a small point but could use a bit of attention from the maker. It integrates just fine with Canon flashes and other makers the biggest attraction here is it can act as a wireless flash "master" and "slave" using optical flashes or a standard non metered manual S1/S2 modes one for instant firing and one for pre flash suppression. The multi flash strobe mode is not something I use often but it's there if required the exact no. of flashes will vary depending on the power output.Having owned and used quite a few flashes most of the weaker areas on this unit are a moot point ie fairly minor I'm particularly impressed that the maker has seen fit to offer a 2 year warranty too. If you run this next to a 430EX Mark II a solid little flash but somewhat dated (it doesn't have a bounce card or an on camera strobe mode/ wireless master control) you can almost buy 4 of these flashes for the price of that single unit (it's a little under £200 at the time of this review) For off camera work you can pick up some radio triggers though optical works quite well for most indoor uses.Third party flash makers have really been improving and they're offering nearly the same features as top end units for a fraction of the price bar long term use which I will report on and update if required I can't really see how OEM makers can justify the excessive prices on flashes. This model makes a strong case for lesser known brands and warrants very serious consideration. Bar a few smaller areas this comes with a strong recommendation.