>
> 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).
I think it's nicely ironic that my AF280T flash units have better
functionality with the new generation of DSLRs than newer generation AF500s.
John Francis wrote:
> 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).
>
>
>
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