The user manual says as much, by omitting it from the list of Commander-capable flashes, but doesn’t say explicitly that it doesn’t work. Unfortunately we have bad news for SB-800 users — you can’t use your beloved flash as a ‘Master’ with the YN-622N system. We have been testing out the YN-622Ns with my Nikon D700, Chris’s Nikon D800 and a pair of Monty’s Speedlight SB-800s, the latter of which have definitely seen better days. We haven’t quite mastered Yongnuo’s interface well enough to use it without constantly referring to the instruction manual, so we’ll cover the feature properly in a later article. It is similar in some ways to the AC3 ZoneController module for PocketWizard ControlTL, but not quite as easy to use. You can also program the parameters from the YN-622N transmitter itself, by tapping the buttons on the side and memorising a few different colour codes. The advantage being that radio has a longer range and isn’t put off by bright ambient conditions. Here’s the clever bit: slide a Commander flash unit on top of the transmitter, put it in master mode and configure an “optical” wireless setup and the YN-622N will intercept the electrical signals, interpret them and send out appropriate instructions to the remote flashes so that they put out the same amount of light as if they had received optical signals from the Commander unit, but they are in fact getting these commands via radio. The on-camera transmitter sends out signals to each remote flash to tell them to fire at an appropriate power level, but all along the remote flashes think they are actually sitting on top of a camera.
You then clip a transceiver to each remote flash unit and set them to “TTL” mode. I don’t know the nitty-gritty details of how the low-level programming works, but empirically it appears that the YN-622N’s protocol is more similar to PocketWizard ControlTL than it is to the YN-622C or Pixel Kings for Canon.Įssentially, you have one unit sitting in the camera hotshoe, acting as a transmitter.
How does the system work? In a nutshell, it replaces the optical/infrared signals in Nikon’s Advanced Wireless Lighting (AWL) system with radio signals. Whereas the King used a battery door little thicker than a playing card, ready to ping off at any moment, the YN-622’s is considerably more secure. It must be said that the construction of the Yongnuo YN-622N is a bit better than that of the Pixel Kings, in particular the battery compartment. While the YN-622C and Kings for Canon have a similar feature set, this is not the case for the respective Nikon i-TTL variants, which we will discover in a moment. When I first saw the YN-622, I mistakenly thought it might be a copy of the King-series triggers from Pixel Enterprise. The top surface has a glossy finish that attracts fingerprints but nonetheless presents a premium appearance. The YN-622N’s have a nice, solid feel to them with a good firm response from the buttons but without creaky plastic or gaps between the components — more than can be said for the considerably more expensive and feature-averse PocketWizard PlusX. But after playing with these triggers for a few days, here are our first impressions, what works and what doesn’t.įirst off, the build quality is pretty decent. Understanding the ins and outs of every function of this system is no mean feat indeed, we haven’t got our heads round all of the controls yet. We’ve got our hands on a set of Yongnuo YN622N i-TTL flash triggers, a set of 2.4GHz transceivers that hope to turn your optically-transmitted Nikon Creative Lighting System (CLS) into a radio-based one.
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