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.
