FlashQ Q20II (Black)

Great little flash! I think every photographer should own a little flash like this. Great value for the $$$. Super compact. Super fun to use. You can shoot this with small cameras or your expensive setup. Great for street photography. Wouldn't recommend it other than street or small spaces.

I'm new to working with manual flash so it's been a learning process. I bought this particular flash because of a youtube video I saw that sparked my interest. There are so many options out there and this one just seemed easy to use and powerful enough for me to practice on.The remote trigger works great on my Nikon and Olympus cameras. It's powerful enough for short distances 10-15 ft. which is the distances I am mostly at away from the subject.The controls are pretty straight forward to use and the build quality seems sturdy enough for a few bumps here and there and for regular use. I like that its portable and light. You can tilt the flash bulb to various angles and it's self supporting so you can set it on just about any surface. It also comes with several gels you can attach easily.I mostly photograph my family so I am not a professional in any way. It's a straight forward very simple flash which can be difficult for newbies or someone like me which is why I got it so i can learn how to use manual flash and improve my skills. I highly recommend it for amateurs. I doubt that this is sufficient for professionals. its fun to use and experiment with.

I wanted to like this flash so badly. In theory it has a lot of cool features that work well. The ability to shoot the flash off camera (and a charger that charges both pieces), gels, rotating head, video light, easy controls… but the flash has a really bad recycle time and often times just doesn’t fire at all. If you’re in a shoot and trying to use it, it’s very frustrating not knowing when the flash will fire or not. Recycle time is really bad too even with new batteries. Sad I missed my return window

First off, if you’re wondering if it works with Leica Q2 cameras, it does. 2nd, this flash offers a lot of value for the money. It’s a on camera flash, the unit can be detached from the hotshoe and it becomes a wireless off camera flash. The unit is also a solid video light and it gets pretty bright. Comes with gels so you can experiment with different colors. Overall, it’s a pretty solid package. Doesn’t add much weight to camera. It runs on double A batteries but be sure to get rechargeable Ni-MH batteries so you use the included micro usb for charging. If I can offer feedback to manufacturer: include usb c in a future update.

The look and build of this thing is fairly nice, especially for the price: it's light (a little heavier with batteries, but not bad), it does have the cool built-in and detachable transmitter base, and based on some limited and non-scientific testing the flash intensity seems to be OK (maybe better than OK, but again I'm not measuring with any sort of equipment).My main problem with this is that in a few days of playing with it I just never can predict whether pushing the shutter button is going to actually trigger the flash. I'm using it from an Olympus PEN-F body, which has always worked extremely reliably with my ancient Oly flash. I have no idea why it's having problems, but the fact that it is means that I'm most likely going to return it. If it did work, it'd be a nice gadget for the price.Update — I obtained a replacement for the first flash (probably not necessary). Same weird behavior. I was on the verge of returning it, but the behavior just wasn't making any sense to me so even while I was chatting with Amazon support I was trying to figure out what was going on.The Q20 has a couple of slave modes for *optical* slaving to another flash (first and second, pretty common). The state of that setting is reflected in a little LED next to the button that controls that feature on the flash. When the setting is red or green, it's set to be an optical slave. I now think that that was a key part of my misunderstanding: to whatever extent, that setting makes the camera hot shoe "fire" command work either not at all or erratically.With the flash set such that the slave light is completely dark, it works predictably in any camera mode, which makes sense because it's a dumb flash that's not supposed to have any idea what the camera is doing. I'm keeping this second one because even though it's not really a serious "pro" piece of equipment it seems like it might be super useful in some situations with the remote feature.Upping my rating to 4 stars because it's still a kind-of cheap thing and the user interface is variously weird. But not a bad purchase at all.

Great product for what it is, very functional and versatile. Lots of pieces you could lose, but comes with a bag. Reasonably priced for what it does. Buttons have a great feel to them on the flash unit. The receiver unit has tiny on/off button that is hard to use with the fingernail though. This is a tool of necessity (when you need a flash and don’t have one) though, and does a lot, for its compact size, so I’m very happy with it. Good form factor and very light weight.

Small and very easy to use. Has worked well for me, for years, across multiple camera systems, particularly my Ricoh GRII. Some complain that this thing melts with heavy use, which may be true, but come on...it's like $90.