If, like me, you love using flash to control your lighting, balance ambient sunlight and make your people pictures pop with pin-sharp precision then you’ll probably be in the market for a flashgun. As a mirrorless Canon photographer there are a few options to choose from such as the Canon Speedlite EL-10 costing $239/£249 and its bigger brother, the Canon Speedlite EL-1 at $1249/£1299, which are two of Canon’s most eye-catching offerings.
The Speedlite EL-10 is a very capable flashgun and doesn’t break the bank, whereas the EL-1 is Canon’s best Speedlite to date and comes packed to the rafters with top features – it even gets a red ring around the flash head to show it’s built to the same L-series quality as Canon’s top flight optics, so is clearly aimed at professionals. But is it really five times better as the price difference would suggest? Well, I recently got hold of both to find out just that.
