yongnuo with powershot sx1 - which to get

[Sixcats]

Hi Everyone,

I have the Canon powershot sx1is and love it. I would like to get a Yongnuo flash and also was looking at the Yongnuo RF 603 trigger. I am just playing around so no way am i going to spend the money on Canon brand gear.

When i search for the Yongnuo products i see mostly 2 descriptions of what cameras they work with:
Canon 1D/5D/7D/50D/40D/30D... Series
Canon Rebel 300D/350D/400D/450D/... Series

It would be much easier for me to order stuff if i know if there is one of the Canons listed above that would function the same way and have the same type of hot shoe as the powershot sx1.

Does anyone know what other Canon would be equivelant to my powershot in relation to flashes and hot shoes?

Thanks.

[OsmosisStudios]

The off-brand flashes are only designed to work on the dSLR class of cameras: they may still work on an SX-1, but there's no guarantee of it.

[Skoropada]

I have tested a Yongnuo 460 with a Phottix Tettra trigger on a Canong G12, and it worked.

The fact is that the Yongnuo flashes are manual flashes so the only contacts that matter in the hotshoe are the big central contact and the ground.

Firing a flash like this is just a matter of shorting the ground and the center contact, so I assume that any camera with a standard hotshoe will work.

PS: I've also have used the Yongnuo flash with a Sony camera with an adapter.

[inkista]

I use RF-602s or ST-E2 with the hotshoe on my G9 with remote flashes with no problem.

Despite the fact that my G9 has all five contacts, though, it's not actually doing any actual e-TTL communication, as far as I can discern, so make sure you know how to do everything in Manual. There does seem to be some form of preflash/power setting thing with the pop-up, but that doesn't seem to be communicating with the hotshoe. I could be wrong, as I rarely mount the flash on top of the camera, as it becomes very uncomfortably top heavy when I do so.

I'd do a google on "strobist" and "SX120IS" to see how the flash hotshoe behaves and whether it makes a difference if you get an eTTL capable flash, but if you're always going to use the 603s, you're only going to have all-manual access anyway.

If this is the case, I'd recommend getting an all-manual YN-560 from Amazon through a seller that offers a rebate, and check that you get the later (more robust) metal-footed version when it's delivered. I got mine from cheaplights with a 90-day warranty and it's still going great. Love the hell out of it. You may not even need the radio triggers right away, since the two slave modes on it work great with my S90's pop-up flash. (S1 if the camera's in M mode, S2 if it's in Av/Tv/P).