Review Yongnuo YN565EX Speedlite

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Review Yongnuo YN565EX Speedlite

Review Yongnuo YN565EX Speedlite

The YN565EX Speedlite is another Chinese flash from Yongnuo. I got a review of the brand new YN565EX for Canon. Yongnuo is tricky and measures the guide number with the flash zoom set to maximum, which gives a guide number of 58m.

Here are the key features of this flash:

  • The YN565EX's flash head rotates 270 degrees: 180 to the left, 90 to the right. Up / down the head is lowered 90 degrees.
  • The zoom ranges from 24 to 105mm, the same range of the head zoom for the flash YN568EX. When installing diffuser cards the flash zoom does not change.
  • The flash has a large monochrome display with orange backlight. The backlight turns on when you press the corresponding button.
  • Flash control is tricky, it’s difficult to understand without instructions.
  • YN565EX supports ETTL Mode, M Mode and Strobe Mode (Multi). Flash has no high speed sync mode.
  • Flash may be remotely controlled using the system Nikon CLS Nikon cameras / flashes and Canon cameras / flashes. The YN565EX can be controlled remotely by any other commander flash unit. To enter Slave remote control mode, press and hold the 'Zoom' button. Then use the joystick to select the desired group and channel. In remote control mode, automatic ETTL mode is available without high speed sync support. The flash can simultaneously receive control commands from both Canon and Nikon flashes. You can customize the work only from Canon and only from Nikon. I think this confusion is unnecessary - since they made a flash for Canon, why add gadgets from another system there and cross a hedgehog with a snake?
  • With S1 mode you can ignite the Yongnuo YN565EX flash at the first light pulse from the master flash. In S1 and S2 modes, the power is manually set, from 1/128 to 1/1 (full). In S2 mode the flash is ignited without any problems on the second (or last) flash pulse. In S2 mode, the YN565EX is convenient to ignite with a flash that works in ETTL mode. S1 and S2 modes cannot work in high-speed sync mode. The same modes can be found in a very cheap flash Yongnuo Speedlite YN460-II и YN460. Attention: The light trap, which is responsible for receiving command pulses, is located on the front panel of the flash, therefore, to synchronize with the flash, you need to place the YN568EX so that it “sees” the command pulse of another flash. In remote control mode, a single red LED on the front of the flash blinks to indicate that the flash is in remote control mode and ready to fire. You can configure the YN565EX in remote control mode to beep for accuracy and notify of successful recharge after each pulse. Attention: Yongnuo YN565EX cannot control other flashes.
  • Flash alerts can be turned off. The Yongnuo YN565EX has a flash-ready indicator button, when you press it, a test pulse occurs.
  • The flash has a diffuser card (wide-angle diffuser) and a reflector card. It is very difficult to get them out of the flash. The first time I pulled out cards with a clerical knife. The Chinese apparently made up their minds.
  • The flash is attached to the camera using a spinning disk. To install or remove the flash from the camera, you need spend some time to twist / unscrew the locking disc.
  • In ETTL mode, you can set the flash output correction to 5 ev in increments of 1/3 ev
  • The flash has a special auto focus lamp.
  • Yongnuo YN565EX is made in China, the body is made of nice matte plastic. The foot of the shoe is metal. On the flash there is sync connector studio flash PC sync and connector for external power unit SF-18C and SF-17C. The battery cover, to my surprise, is made in good faith :)
  • A cloth cover comes with the flash. The cover cannot be attached to the belt. There is a compartment for a flash stand in the case.

I frankly did not like the flash: there is no high-speed sync mode, a tricky menu, an incomprehensible mixture of Canon ETTL with Nikon I-TTL, the difficulty in removing the diffuser card and reflector card, long-spinning disk lock for installation on the camera, etc. YN568EX It has the same button interface, but it is more intuitive to manage it. When working on my Canon 350D ETTL (E-TTL II version) worked fine, but not perfect.

You can see the price for this hereor in the price block located below:
All prices on YN565

The cheapest is to buy Yongnuo flashes at aliexpress.

Conclusions:

Yongnuo YN565EX Speedlite is a good Chinese flash for Canon cameras with automatic ETTL mode, it can also work in automatic slave mode. Can be ignited by command flashes on the corresponding Canon cameras (7D, 650D, 60D, 600D) and Nikon (D7000, D90 etc.). If your camera does not have a flash that works in command mode, then the YN565EX can be set on fire using S1 and S2 modes, or using another external flash in Master mode.

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Comments: 120, on the topic: Review Yongnuo YN565EX Speedlite

  • Andrei

    Good day everyone. Flash Yongnuo YN-565 EX, when the “master” mode is selected, the flash is red in pulses (in the form of a grid). How do I turn off this flash light? Maybe someone will tell you where to find instructions in Russian. Thanks in advance.

    • Taras

      Long press of the Zoom button - use the navigation keys to scroll to the left or to the right until “OFF” appears on the screen. Confirm selection with the center key. Instructions in Russian:
      strobius.com.ua/news-cat/russkij-manual-dlya-yongnuo-yn-565-nikon.html

  • Ildar

    Good day, please tell me if it will work on the Canon 40d? I can’t find compatibility anywhere. Thank you in advance for your reply!

  • Benjamin

    In M mode, by briefly pressing the ZOOM button and pressing the direction buttons, I can change the flash of the flash in this mode; at the same time, the flash zoom is audible. The range of lighting distances also varies.
    When you press the OK button, the indicator stops at the selected value of FR.
    When you switch to TTL mode and change the FR of the lens, the FR indicator on the display does NOT change. Flash zoom operation is NOT audible. The range of lighting distances is NOT changing.
    Maybe I didn’t do something in the flash settings or is it a flash malfunction?

  • Benjamin

    I apologize. One more point: in any mode (TTL, M, Multi), the display constantly lights up - at the top right - the letter M, ZOOM and the FR value selected in mode M. How to get rid of this letter M?

    • Taras

      A short press of the Zoom key - continue flipping the FR values ​​with the side navigation keys until the letter M near Zoom disappears))

  • Benjamin

    Good evening!
    There were a couple more questions:
    - the zoom range of the flash reflector is 24 - 105 mm - is it on FF (FX) or on crop (DX)?
    - Fn 17 (Canon) and Fn 09 (Nikon) - what is the correct CL EA or CL ER?

    • Taras

      1. The zoom range is the same for the HALF-F and FULL-F settings and is 24-105. To be honest, I did not notice any changes in the flash when switching these settings. Perhaps the developers introduced it only for compatibility at the level of exchange of commands between the camera and the flash. I have no FF camera to see the difference on my own eyes.
      2. I have no canon. I can only speak for Nikon. The Fn 09 item in the Russian-language manual says: “CL EA -: Return to default settings”. And on the flash display, the capital letters A and R are indistinguishable, because the font here is like a calculator.

  • Benjamin

    Taras, thank you very much for the answer.
    I continue to master the flash, and new questions arise.
    In the User Instructions (IP) in section VI. The main functions of clause 3. TTL mode says:
    “Set the camera to [A] (aperture priority), [S] (shutter priority), or [M] (manual), and you can use the flash in auto-TTL (i-TTL) mode”
    Can I use this flash mode in the P (software) mode of the unit?

    • Taras

      I haven’t tried it yet, because I rarely used the “P” mode. Thanks to your question just tried out the suggested combination of settings. Works! By eye and by the histogram when changing the illumination of the same scene in a series of shots, the exposure is the same with the same “bell” of the histogram. This means that the flash fires at a different power depending on the measured illumination in TTL mode.
      PS Don't be afraid to experiment. Your personal practice is the best teacher. I tried a Chinese battery on my D5100, and a Chinese battery booster, and flashed the camera with patched firmware - I stood it))) I also advise you to play with the mode of ignition of an external flash placed on a stand or tripod from the built-in (S1, S2)

  • Benjamin

    Thanks so much for the answer, Tarkas.
    I am really experimenting too. And I tried P mode too, but it was not clear to me why it is not among the recommended camera modes.
    In the device (Nikon D5100!) I use, in addition to my own battery EN-EL14, Chinese ones bought in eBay, which work no worse than the old one. One of them is for 1600 (!) MAh, which at first raised my doubts. However, - works fine.
    The firmware issue interested me in relation to this flash. Indeed, annoying lack of indication of battery status. Let's say that there is one in model 568.

    • anonym

      People. There is no indication of the state of battery charge even on the native nikon sb 910 !!!

  • Taras

    I think it is impossible for an ordinary user to reflash this flash. There is no USB connector as in the camera. And the camera itself is flashed through the menu when the search for a binary file on the SD card is started. For flashing the puff, you probably need a special cable that connects directly to the printed circuit board. And hardly any of the programmers will patch the firmware for a mid-level Chinese craft. Moreover, an icon for indicating the battery charge is not drawn on the LCD-display, which looks like a calculator, and there is nothing to display it, even if you programmatically “screw on” this option. I am also a little annoyed by the lack of indication of the charge level, when at the most crucial moment the flash decides that it is enough, they say, to shoot. But for such a price you have to put up.

  • Benjamin

    Thanks, Taras.
    Yes, flashing will not work. Let's wait for version II, similar to canon.
    Regarding the mode P. Found in the Instructions on page 31 point 4, recommending ... the use of this mode

  • Andrei

    Hello.
    Got a flash from China, it works, but in the off state, a crackle is heard. Do you know the possible reasons?
    Thank you

  • Taras

    Crackle - when to shake, or when turning the flash head?

    • Andrei

      Cracking when it is turned off and do nothing with it. And in a couple of days of such cracking, the batteries go dead (the flash is off).

      • Taras

        This means there is a current leak somewhere. Perhaps in high voltage circuits. The consequence of what it was - I can not say for sure. Factory defect, fall damage? I do not know at what level you own electronics. Disassemble the flash, visually inspect - it can be repaired at home

        • Taras

          Clicks can be micro-discharges of short circuits. First of all, “ring” with a tester or check with an oscilloscope all electrolytic capacitors (of course, they must first be discharged by pressing the Pilot button, and after a test pulse, quickly open the battery compartment without allowing them to recharge. Then withstand the flash without batteries for a couple of days to neutralize the residual charge) ... You can also check for breakdown the circuit between the igniter and the main electrodes of the flash lamp. But checking a high-voltage generator is more difficult. I couldn't. You should read about this on the forums of electronics engineers.

          • Taras

            Oh, I forgot - for max. discharge of the main capacitor from the test pulse, in the flash settings in manual mode, set the power to 1/1. Otherwise, when disassembling the case, it will shock with a voltage of a couple of hundred kV - not fatal, but extremely unpleasant)))

            • BB

              “A couple of hundred kV” - you turned it down :)
              There are 300-330 volts on the main, "large" capacitor and an order of magnitude more than 2,5-5 kV on the firing one. Moreover, the residual charge on the main capacitor can remain for several months.

            • Paul

              If you are hit by a couple of hundred kV from you, only slippers will remain!

  • Benjamin

    In the EXIF ​​metadata of the Nikon D5100 shot pertaining to flash, will the flash reflect how the flash is used - for direct or bounced light?

  • Benjamin

    Here's how it looks:

  • Benjamin

    Those. in both cases of using this flash - for direct light or for reflected light - Bounce Flash is written in EXIF. but no Direct Flash

    • Taras

      Probably, this flash lacks a head position sensor (tilt, turn). How else would the “native” SB 800 know how it illuminates the subject?

      • Taras

        Or it's even simpler - SB has the simplest furs. sensors for pulling out the reflector card and the diffusing screen. And in our Chinese, of course, they are not.

  • Benjamin

    Taras, thanks for the answers.

  • Daria

    Hello, I have such a question: I bought a Yn 565EX flash, it worked, everything was fine, but then the green color turned on, I thought that the batteries were discharged, after charging it turned green, it responds to the Fn, on / off and everything. Tell me, what could it be?

    • Lynx

      Find online instructions in Russian to it

  • Vasya

    Friends, tell me what’s the matter. I received a YN565EX flash for Nikon. I decided to check the performance, turn it on, the Pilot button is green, I decided to make a puff, I click on this button, and nothing happens after 15 seconds. the flash goes out and the letters PL light up at the top right. I put the same thing on the ph. Marriage or something else?

  • Taras

    Change the batteries. Their discharge is indicated by the green color of the diode and a message on the PL display (power low)

  • anonym

    I bought for Canon 70D, but could not set up radio control. I set it on fire with a standard flash - I set it on fire, but I can't send a radio signal with a carcass, the carcass says “a controlled external flash is not connected”.

    • Taras

      Need a Yongnuo Radio Synchronizer. This flash is not ignited by radio commands from the carcass.

  • Catherine

    How to turn on the red grid, which should appear when you do the focus?

  • Taras

    Fn button - using the navigation buttons "up-down" select 04 item of settings "AF L" and switch with the buttons "left-right" from "-" to "on"

  • Alexander

    Hello, tell me how to make the AF backlight work on this flash with any AF point, and not just with the central one (bunch with d300)
    thanks in advance

    • Taras

      No way. AF and camera backlighting and flash work only with center point

  • anonym

    Taras well done. I have been chasing this puff for a month and have not yet understood everything.

  • Benjamin

    Good afternoon, Denis!
    I would like to know how exactly the pulse duration of this flash changes with each change in its power - from 1 to 1/128.
    Thank you.

    • KalekseyG

      Who is Denis? The greater the power, the longer the pulse.

  • Benjamin

    I apologize, Taras answered many of my questions about this outbreak.
    If Arkady can give me an answer, I will be glad.
    The general principle - the more power, the longer the pulse - is clear.
    I would specifically ask for power values, as in the example I cite.

    • Taras

      The Chinese do not write such details. And it would be nice to know the pulse duration. This parameter will allow you to assess the degree of "freezing" of the object in motion

    • Taras

      On page 61 of the paper version of the instruction there is a characteristic Flash time 1/200 - 1 / 20000s. 1/1 of the power is equal to the pulse duration of 1 / 200s, and 1/128 of the power is equal to the duration of 1 / 20000s. If the dependence is directly proportional, you can recall the school algebra course)))

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