On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 04:18:50PM -0400, Stan Halpin wrote: > > >> > >> On 8/27/2013 6:40 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > >>> > >>> The LED add-on to the flash is a brilliant move, and way more useful > >>> than the WR waterproofing. I understand the motivation to cement WR as > >>> a brand-wide thing, but it's unlikely to be of very much practical use > >>> to anyone. Brightly lit raindrops or snowflakes anyone? > > I think Tanya already spoke to one reason for WR. In my case, I had several > opportunities to get my 360 quite wet earlier this month. Early morning dewy > meadows, handholding the flash to backlight insects or flowers, needed to set > the flash down on the wet ground a few times. On the beach (actually, in the > lake) after sunset, 30sec time exposures, manually firing the flash just > above the water level to highlight the wave caps on the lake. Near a small > waterfall, 6-10 sec exposures, handheld flash near the base of the falls to > freeze some of the water. (I've entered an example of this in the September > PUG.) The flash survived, I had no problems, but my anxiety level would have > been considerably lower with a WR flash.
Was it Christine that had someone overflow a bathtub upstairs and have all of water end up dripping right onto her camera bag a few months ago? > > stan > > >>> > >>> But the constant light source for video is unique in speedlights and > >>> will probably get copied. Well, well: somebody's actually awake in > >>> their R&D department. > >>> > >>> I like that the new flash models are reduced in height too. The > >>> original 540 is too tall to fit in my Westcott mini softbox and I'm > >>> using an old AF200 instead. > >>> > >>> I don't like that the focus assist function only works with the latest > >>> camera bodies. FA works just fine on the old AF540 with my K20D. > >>> > >>> I also don't like that the prices are (still) so high for both models. > >>> Not good value. > >>> > >>> > >>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Dario Bonazza > >>> <dario.bona...@virgilio.it> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/08/27/ricoh-introduces-weather-resistant-flash-units?utm_campaign=internal-link&utm_source=news-list&utm_medium=text&ref=title_0_1 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/08/27/ricoh-announces-hd-update-to-pentax-limited-primes-15mm-f4-21mm-f32-35mm-f28-macro-40mm-f28-70mm-f24?utm_campaign=internal-link&utm_source=news-list&utm_medium=text&ref=title_0_0 > >>>> > > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
