Comments on: Anybody else having bad luck with Canon 430ex? http://www.nutt.net/2007/04/07/anybody-else-having-bad-luck-with-canon-430ex/ Random articles on whatever I feel like... Fri, 16 May 2008 03:33:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ryan http://www.nutt.net/2007/04/07/anybody-else-having-bad-luck-with-canon-430ex/#comment-12467 Ryan Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:57:24 +0000 http://www.nutt.net/2007/04/07/anybody-else-having-bad-luck-with-canon-430ex/#comment-12467 After a trip to the UPS store to send the second defective 430ex back to B&H I had 2 working 430ex's. Last weekend I was setting up one on a light stand for formals at a wedding and it fell about 3 feet to the floor popping off the red filter on the front and getting a small scratch. That flash got tossed in my bag because I didn't feel that I could trust it and I brought out the other one. But now that I've had a chance to test it on non-critical shots the 430ex that went for a bounce seems to be working fine. I must just have bad luck with flashes. I had a Vivitar 285 that fell off my counter the first time I used it and would only fire 1 out of 5 times. I've dropped my 550ex when it fell out of my flash bracket, although it still works. And now I've dropped a 430ex. Flashes just aren't safe in my house. After a trip to the UPS store to send the second defective 430ex back to B&H I had 2 working 430ex’s. Last weekend I was setting up one on a light stand for formals at a wedding and it fell about 3 feet to the floor popping off the red filter on the front and getting a small scratch. That flash got tossed in my bag because I didn’t feel that I could trust it and I brought out the other one. But now that I’ve had a chance to test it on non-critical shots the 430ex that went for a bounce seems to be working fine.

I must just have bad luck with flashes. I had a Vivitar 285 that fell off my counter the first time I used it and would only fire 1 out of 5 times. I’ve dropped my 550ex when it fell out of my flash bracket, although it still works. And now I’ve dropped a 430ex. Flashes just aren’t safe in my house.

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