I bought a brand new Sigma Super 500 from cameraworld oregon. The hot shoe connecter pretty much disintegrated from it's own weight on top of the camera. Camera World, besides being jerks on the phone (their sales people are pretty much the reason I try to avoid that store - they know nothing and are rude to you unless you are a soccer mom they can rip off /rant) said I would need to send it to Sigma.
Is this a common experience to send a one month old merchandise to manufacturer? Or should I press camera world? As for Sigma 500, it works as advertised. It has problems staying in High Speed Sync mode, for example if the light leve fluctuates a bit between 1/60s to 1/180s, as far as I remember, Canon 550ex stays in high speed mode. The Sigma needs to be reset to FP mode everytime it falls below the 1/90 (i think). Also, it does not work well with Canon G1, but then Canon G1 ha issues with flash anyway. Evrim * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
