Customer Ratings & Reviews

Wonderful product, very sturdy, a little pricey but it is definitely worth it.

The flash performs outstandingly. So far no problems and its easy to use.

Amazing Speedlite. I definitely recommended this to friends.

loved this items. Rather expensive but I love it dearly.

Beginner photographer and I really like to get my gear at best buy

May be used in auto mode and no apparent adjustment to camera is needed

I love this flash I would recommend to others great flash

Pros: Great Flash, should last forever, can run slaves. Cons: Big

Allows me to be more creative with off camera lighting

It's an amazing flash with multiple ways of using it.

A great product Canon delivers another top of the line product

I highly recommended this Speedlite !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Changes the way your pictures come out, worth the price tag!

If you don't own an external flash yet, go get this one!

If your going to buy one flash, this is the one to get.

Unit is very solid, and Versatile, I've been using for about a month and am very happy

Not as good as the new 600ii ex rt so save your money and upgrade

I have been using this flash for years but unfortunately, it overheats and stops working. Outputs great light but it has been replaced at least three times. Luckily, I buy the protection plan each time but this was the last. I'll probably move on if it happens again.

I now own three of these beasts. The improvement over the previous 580 ex is not just a bump in power, but the addition of built in wireless radio transmitter triggers that do not require line of sight to operate. This is a huge improvement over the old optical trigger system, which did not work reliably in bright sun. I just used a 600 on the beach doing informal one-light portraits of my kids. I had the 600 mounted inside a Wescott Orb. Like a number of modifiers, the Orb fully encloses the flash, making power adjustments a total pain. Using a dedicated transmitter in the hot shoe of my Canon, I could easily adjust the flash output and other parameters on the 600 right from the camera, rather than putting down the camera, carefully peeling back the diffusion material on the Orb and reaching up into the enclosure to make adjustments on the flash. This is a pro quality flash/trigger system that is great for location shooting. It will not have the power of a monolight, but in most cases that's not necessary, and the 600 offsets that by being both lightweight and far more affordable. Get one. Or two.

I have gone through quite a few flashes over the last year including Sunpak, Yongnuo, and Cheetah. Granted they are good flashes for basic needs or off camera flash, but they just don't do a good enough job for what I needed. I purchased the Canon 600 and I'm in love. It came with a lot of great stuff: case, gels, etc. It didn't come with a diffuser though but I purchased a Stofen on amazon and that fixed my diffuser needs. Overall, it's so worth the money.