Review of Altura Photo Professional Flash Kit for NIKON DSLR - Includes: I-TTL Flash (AP-N1001), Wireless Flash Trigger Set and Accessories
I love learning photography and thought of doing some experiments with high speed
exposure photography. So wanted to get myself a wireless flasher with i-TTL
functionality supporting my Nikon D7100.
According to most Amazon reviews Altura Photo Pro Flash Kit
AP-N1001 seemed a good choice. Another reason why I choose AP-N1001 was
cos it came with wireless (and wired) trigger mode. In high exposure photography I knew it’d come handy.
cos it came with wireless (and wired) trigger mode. In high exposure photography I knew it’d come handy.
So, in short:
Pros:
- Works well as described
- I even tried S1, S2 modes which also works well (In S2 mode you can use the wireless trigger to trigger the shutter of the camera & the camera’s flash will trigger the AP-N1001’s flasher)
- Great wireless trigger when connected to the camera
- Good battery life
- Comes with the batteries for the wireless trigger set (but doesn’t incl. the batteries for the flasher: 4x AA)
Cons:
- None I can think of
The manual this comes with is short but gives you all the
necessary details in diagrams etc. If you’re even little bit tech savvy there
wouldn’t be any issue of configuring as you need.
I used regular Duracells and found can take hundreds of
shots without needing to replaced. (I did shoot at lower flasher powers cos I
was taking high speed expos. Most of the time I set around 1/32 or 1/64 power).
It does take few seconds (didn’t measure but the description
says 4secs, which I’d think accurate) to recycle and ready for the next shot.
But never found it an issue.
I’m very happy with the wireless trigger too, cos I can use
it to trigger the camera (especially when I set the AP-N1001 flasher to S2 mode
(slave) so it’ll go off as soon as it detects the camera’s (Nikon D7100 in my
case) flash goes on. I have a very cheap wireless IR trigger I bought for the
D7100 but it’s not very reliable, sometimes it’ll shoot as soon as I press it
but sometimes I need to press multiple times. But this wireless trigger (when
connected to the camera) triggers as soon as I press it. Also this has the soft
touch to auto-focus and hard press to take pic (just a shooting button in a
camera).
The pouch is a nice addition to take all the stuff with you.
(Wireless trigger doesn’t fit in that though).
High speed expos require lot of fine tuning of settings
through experimenting at a certain environment and this flasher has all the
configs I wanted.
I’ve added a couple of pics I took using this and a cheap
Neewer 24x36in reflector set.
I’m fully satisfied with this flasher.
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