On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:49:25PM +0000, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Tom C wrote: > > > Yeah I understand that technology changes... It doesn't help though that I > > bought their most expensive flash unit and that now it's basically useless. > > :-) Long before the life of the product itself has been exhausted. > > That's an aperture-simulator kind of argument. Stick it on an AF film > body and enjoy. > > The real complaint is that we had to wait 14 years for the successor > of the AF500FTZ (more if you live in the UK). The MZ-S would have made > use of it as early as 2001. > > Kostas
It's also rather annoying that the AF500 doesn't have an "auto" mode, so I'd be better off with my 30-year-old Sunpak 3000 on a new body. (Although, of course, there's an aperture-simulator parallel; a screw- mount lens gives me slightly more automation that a later K/M mount). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net