Thu Sep 6 15:32:34 EDT 2012 Bruce Walker wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:00 PM, 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. > > I'm a big Pentax fan--I own Pentax gear almost exclusively--which I > guess makes me a non-rational self-flagellating fanboi, but I would > recommend you away from a Pentax flash, new or not. > > If I had back the cash I sunk into two AF540's and an AF160, I'd buy > three or four Vivitars or other inexpensive manual flashes *and* a > van-load of modifiers. > I find Metz 58 (I have af-1) - considerably better and more flexible than AF540. Two main reasons: 1. It works reasonably well in "A" mode. 2. It has the secondary smaller flash in front that is useful for the situations when you bouncing light off the ceiling. I haven't used all capabilities of that flash, but these features are useful. I only wish I could switch the modes (PTTL <--> A) via a slider/button, as opposed to the menu, and that different modes would keep their settings (say, for the small front secondary flash) separately. ... yet, P(itiful)TTY says it all. Igor 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.
