After tons of comparing, I decided not to spend my money to purchase any shutter remote although it’s cheap, and I also don’t purchase any wireless flash (speedlite) transmitter and receiver.

Unboxing……

YongNuo’s packaging never let me worry. As you can see, the two transceiver units are securely wrapped with bubble wrap, and all the items are put inside a box before it’s placed in the main packaging box.

The shutter connecting cable is included in this item, as well as a user manual.

Here I will give you reasons why I choose Yong Nuo RF-603 Wireless Flash Transceiver instead of getting shutter remote and wireless flash triggers separately. You’d me amazed, hopefully.

You might wonder, what is transceiver and why it’s called wireless transceiver. It’s simply because each transceiver unit can be either a flash transmitter or a receiver. Convenient enough.

Before when I was searching for flash triggers, I often saw that some flash triggers are powered by some batteries that I’ve never seen before, and I asked around, no one knows where to buy.  

Look at the YongNuo RF-603 Wireless Flash Transceivers.

Each transceiver unit is powered by 2 pieces of AAA batteries. You can grab them easily. If you’ve the budget, you can even go for rechargeable batteries. No hassles.

The fun part of YongNuo RF-603 Wireless Flash Transceiver is……

It’s a combination of wireless flash transceiver and also a GOOD shutter remote.

Why I say GOOD? Because of two reasons.
Firstly, unlike other shutter remote, often the camera cannot detect the signal of the remote (or the remote fails to send the signal to the camera???). YongNuo RF-603 Wireless Flash Transceivers solve this problem. I tried many times, and it doesn’t even fail for a single time, even when I am pressing the shutter remote in another room.

Secondly, you can perform autofocus with the transceivers! You don’t see it wrongly. The button on the transceiver unit is just like the camera shutter button, half-way press to focus and full-way press to shutter.

So imagine I’m taking portraits of myself and I am facing my camera mounted on a tripod. Do some funny actions, press the shutter remote button and perform a sweet autofocus, then *shoot*

One thing I’ve forgotten to try is to shoot using bulb mode. From the spec sheet, it’s mentioned, and since the shutter button is just like the camera’s shutter button, bulb mode should work extremely fine

I highly recommend this gear to every photographer who has started to play with speedlite. You can get so much fun and convenience from it!

Using YongNuo RF-603 Wireless Flash Transceivers as shutter remote. The shutter connecting cable is needed in order to use the transceivers as shutter remote.

Mount your speedlite on it? Tested and it works. No problem

Pure flash triggers setup. Without the shutter connecting cable, it’ll just work as flash triggers.

With the shutter connecting cable, flash triggers and shutter remote (radio triggering) can work simultaneously with no worries.

You can also press the button of the transceiver mounted with the speedlite to take photos. Cool, right?

Have more than one speedlite? No slave mode? No problem, you can always get a single transceiver unit after that.

What makes it more interesting is its 100m transmission distance (from the spec sheet). I don’t have the chance to try out the actual transmission distance, but practically I suppose it’ll work fine within 100m provided nothing is blocking the radio signal. I put a transceiver in my room and try to trigger it in another room, and, it works pretty fine!

If your speedlites are in sleep mode, don’t worry, because the transceiver will “wake” your speedlites.

Having studio strobes? Don’t worry, the transceivers can be used on them too with a Yongnuo studio light trigger sync PC connecting cable (Not included, sold separately).

Just to show how it looks like on studio strobes, that isn’t mine

If you wish to get a set of flash triggers for yourself, don’t forget the YongNuo RF-603 Wireless Flash Transceiver.

Trust me, you won’t regret getting it.

For the past few years, I did set goals for myself. Those would not be done completely at the end, but at least those dreams or goals  would always motivate you, unless you forget them or you’re just being demotivated or discouraged easily.

I would like to share the goals that I’ve personally given to myself. Most of my dreams will have close relationships that I’ve stated in my dream list. Dreams aren’t set for fun, actions are needed to be taken so that the dreams can come true.

In this year, I would like to:-

1. Launch a blog with the niche photography, which will help people around the world who are interested in taking photos  and learning digital photography. (90% completed, launching soon!)
2. Start putting effort in making money online.
3. Create an MV. (Got an idea already )
4. Put more effort in cooking.
5. Improve my photography skills and technique.
6. Get more photography gears!!!
7. Study well, but not forgetting to enjoy! :-p

I feel like this year will be a year that determine whether some of my dreams in the future will be achieved or not. I am on my way to collecting capital for my future, but of course, I won’t lower my purchasing power to the minimum or zero. For things which are needed or things that I like, I will still fork out some money for them.

I’ve set mine, what about yours? It’s always good to have goals and dreams

The tripod is bubble-wrapped, put in its tripod bag and packed in a box. Secure enough.

Initially I wanted to get the one in lighting blue colour. It simply looks more awesome for me. After asking my mum for her opinion, she said that black colour is better. Well, after all I saved up RM13 to get the black one. I actually topped up some more to get a Phottix cleaning kit because I didn’t have proper cleaning tools.

This ballhead is very nice and firm enough, proven by one of my friends. Tried before too. That’s why I am confident with it.

The ballhead features Swiss quick release system, and I really love that. Convenient enough. Yet, it comes with the spirit bubble level.

Same goes to the tripod itself. I don’t really think that I will be using these, but the spirit bubble level just looks nice.

The tripod has 4 sections, and I really like the design of the legs. Instead of using clips, Jusino uses screws. It’s indeed very strong and stable! The tripod itself can handle a maximum load of 12kg.

The sweetest feature that I really like and perhaps I need it. Detachable tripod leg! It can be converted into a monopod by joining the detached leg with the center column of the tripod (Of course, together with the ballhead).

By the way, this tripod comes with two center columns: One is long and one is short. Both come with a hook to hang extra weight and balance tripod when necessary.

This is how high it can go when using the long center column.

It is higher than what I expected. Good enough, taller than me.

And this is how low it can be, with the short center column.

This height can definitely help anyone in taking macro shots. It still can be lowered more actually.

I personally recommend this tripod for those who haven’t got a tripod and considering to buy one. It’s enough for anyone to use. A heavy camera body with speedlite and 70-200mm lens will just be a small case fot it

I always believe, listing out dreams will motivate people to achieve it. Here I’ve done another one.

The bag that I got is Buffalo 1699 Camera Backpack with Laptop Compartment. Good one, I would say. The straps and back of this bag are heavily padded to give extra comfort.

Its interior can be customized to fit my gears, as most camera backpacks do. I can put all my gears in it. But this is just for now. Sooner or later I would not be able to put all my gears inside.

It also comes with a laptop compartment which fits my 14″ laptop. Seriously, the compartment is a little bit small for an average user. It won’t be able to fit people who have larger laptops. Besides, there are some compartments for personal belongings or other small gears.

This bag does have a detachable and changeable side tripod compartment, but since I don’t have a tripod yet, I would not be able to shoot a photo of it.

The most important feature. A rain coat for the bag. It covers the full bag. Nice one.

Actually this bag is a second hand good. I have been thinking whether I should buy it or not. At the end, I bought it. The previous owner, also the first owner of this bag, has just used this bag once and I’ve been told that it’s in new condition. And yes, I am not deceived.

Another gear that I’ve got this week is this…

It’s a Universal Lambency Flash Diffuser. It’s called “universal” because it fits most speedlites, but it doesn’t fit all. Speedlites with large head such as Canon 580EXII, Nissin Di622, YN565EX and etc, would not be able to use this, but there is another one designed for them.

This gear is really recommended for those who have speedlite(s). It comes with silver plating cover, translucent dome and yellow dome. It comes in a set.

Those who are into photography would know the beauty of this. It really softens the light.

Big ballroom? No problems

I’m here now not because of fun. It indicates changes of myself, which I won’t be announcing here.

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