Hey, this is Scott of PhotographyBanzai.com I'm going to show you something I got
just in the mail today. it's a Yongnuo YN-622N TX flash controller. Works with the
622N triggers.. transceivers. Which have been out quite a while now. Of course
they have full TTL. These are the Nikon versions, which doesn't have quite as
much control as the Canon ones. So they released this special unit for Nikon
first, which allows you to do a lot more control from the camera quickly and all
that. As I mentioned in a previous video.. Normally to control power from the
camera, you had to use these buttons here and then that cycles through these
lights. You can look at the previous video to see how that works. But it was a
big hassle and I never used that specific thing. I always controlled power
from the flash itself. But with this new unit here. You can do all of that quickly.
I really like it. It's definitely worth the extra 60 bucks or so to pick up the
commander that just was released. So feature wise, it does a lot of the
similar things to the transceivers, but of course it has the screen on the top
and all the extra buttons. It doesn't have a flash port, which is fine with me
because the point is to have the wireless flash, not necessarily have one
right on the camera. One extra little feature that looks interesting that I
haven't tried yet is called super sync.. Which you can modify the timings to
potentially get a faster normal sync speed with a dumb flash, or strobe, or
anything like that. But besides that.. you have pretty much every feature that the
transceivers have. Including the AF assist lamp, which is good.
I'm going to turn this puppy on and we'll try it out. As I mentioned before, I do
have two of the transceiver units, so first one here with a SB-400. Then I have a
second one with a SB-800. They both appear to work fine so far. I haven't really try them that much.
So of course pretty simple layout. There are no buttons on the side anymore,
which is fine with me. Just switch this on like so. And then it.. right from the
beginning it shows your groupings and shows what channel, and all that. Very
nice layout. It's quick and easy to use. Of course, you have to turn on your other
units. I'm going to do that right now.
So you want to have the same channel. The two.. between your transceivers that are
actually receiving and this unit. So if it says channel one these have to be
channel one, but then you can change the group on the transceiver. So that you can
have multiple groups, of course. See SB-400 is on the 'B' grouping.
But I have the other one on.. if it will power-up.. on 'A'.
So it makes things extremely easy to adjust power between different groups. All
you do is just cycle through this with the group button. So right now I have 'A'
grouping in manual at 1/16 power. You can easily cycle here and change the
power, or you can change the mode. So you can just have TTL and they can do an
adjustment to the power. With the compensations, or you switch it to
straight-up manual.. Which I'm probably going to use most the time. Then this
other mode, I'm not exactly sure what that does at the moment. I can easily
read the manual. So besides that it's extremely simple. So now I can easily
adjust power between different wireless flash from the camera. That's the biggest
thing. And of course it has the high speed sync and all that. But currently I only
have one with high speed sync. This does not, the SB-400. So it's as simple as
getting your group setup. I can easily switch down to the second group.
Add some slight adjustments as needed. And then you just take a picture and that's
it. So I'd say, off the bat, I haven't used it
much obviously. Maybe a hour or so, but off the bat, for $60 approx plus shipping...
It's definitely worth the money for the Nikon system, if you've got the previous
transceiver units. So that was the Yongnuo YN-622N TX.
Thanks!