I have the same flash, and I haven't noticed any more drain on the camera batteries than with no flash (I use it on an ME Super and a P30T). The flash itself does tend to go through AA's pretty quickly though... NiMH cells and a charger are a good investment. I keep two sets in rotation.
-Mat On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Margo Ellen Gesser wrote: > I have a Vivitar 283. It's a great flash and balances nicely with my MZ-3 > and 28-105 lens. It does eat camera batteries, However. I have to replace my > CR-2's much more often if I use my flash continuously (the way I did last > year when we did an entire month of flash assignments) than if I use my > flash sporadically. > > Margo >
