Does the Yongnuo YN 685 flash have a built-in receiver?

Question

Does the flash YN 685 have a built in receiver? In some places I see that it is written that it does, but other places don't mention it.

Answer 1

Depends on what you mean by a receiver.

The YN-685 has a built-in YN-622 radio receiver in it and can be remotely controlled from a Yongnuo YN-622-TX transmitter or YN-622 transceiver with HSS/FP and iTTL. It can also be fired, and have its power, group, and zoom controlled from a YN-560-TX or YN-560IV/YN-660. However, this manual-triggering scheme does not allow for HSS/FP or iTTL as the 622 units do.

The YN-685 has no optical slave capability and cannot be used as a Canon near-infrared wireless eTTL slave, a dumb optical slave, or a Canon -RT radio slave.

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