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DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME. I had access, briefly, to six of the little SB-R200 close-up Speedlights. Cool! What’ll they look like all at once?

The R1C1 Closeup Speedlight system comes intact in a case that has the feel of an old-style doctor’s bag. Open it up, and there are all the implements one could imagine using for close-up flash photography. It’s got two Speedlights, an SU-800 commander unit, rings, diffusers, gels, clips—you name it. It’s even got this twisty, bendy arm thing with spring-loaded clamps at the ends of it, called the SW-C1, that looks like it would make for a good ...

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