I'm not sure I totally agree on Pentax flash. I've used a 540 and a 360 controlled remotely from a K-7. I also shoot with Nikon. The Pentax flash is certainly not as flexible or extensive as the Nikon, but it's way ahead of most of the others.
gs George Sinos -------------------- gsi...@gmail.com www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.com On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Igor Roshchin <s...@komkon.org> wrote: > > > Thu Sep 6 15:20:49 EDT 2012 > Mark Roberts wrote: > >> Larry Colen <lrc at red4est.com> wrote: >> >> >On Sep 6, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Darren Addy wrote: >> > >> >> This morning Ricehigh posted HIS list of guesses (with degree of >> >> certainties) >> >> http://ricehigh.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-9-things-that-pentax-is-to-be.html >> > >> >It will be interesting to see how close he is to the truth. The >> >possibility of a new Pentax flash is very exciting, and would likely be >> >my first high dollar purchase off that list. >> >> The two areas in which I find Pentax most lags behind the competition >> are lack of a full-fram DSLR and lask of a serious flash system. It >> could be that Ricoh is taking this Pentax acquisition seriously... > > I think many would agree. (I do.) > I haven't used N's TTL flashes much (and none of C's), > but in PTTL "P" stands for "pitiful". > > I'd add to that: high-quality AF (speed and accuracy together). > Some photographers (and especially on PDML) don't care for that much > but it is important. (Cf. some PDMLers don't care for the flash.) > > Igor > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
