The only way I would use older flashes would be attached to a radio slave (and I believe that some radio slaves also have trigger voltage limits. That being said, if it blows out your cheap Chinese radio slave, that is a good indication you don't want it on the hotshoe of your DSLR). Since your transmitter would have to go in the hot shoe, the old flash and attached radio slave would need to be on some sort of handle attachment like this oldie, but goodie. Both of those things would probably still cost you more than just finding another AF280T for $20 or under: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_from=R40&_nkw=Pentax+AF280T&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm guessing that after your lens incident and the old adage about > lightning not striking twice ... If there is a sad head-shaking > emoticon, imagine it inserted here. > > The safest thing you could do with that flash would be to give some > kid a fiver, hand him the flash and tell him to drop it into a random > dumpster and not tell you where. > > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Zos Xavius <zosxav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> My friend that sold me the AF28T Flash that died three weeks later >> felt bad and brought me down a Vivitar 272. It takes 2 9v batteries. >> =) >> >> It looks like trigger voltage is somewhere between 150v and 290v >> according to various sources. Therefore it is certainly not safe for >> the hotshoe. Reading some more, the pc sync port seems capable of >> 300v(!). So I'm thinking about pulling the center pin from it and just >> using the sync cable. Has anyone used these old flashes with a digital >> body? It might be even better to get a bracket for it and use the sync >> cable, hammer flash style. >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- 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.
