Hello all:
Any suggestions for a compact electronic flash unit for my MX? What do you use and why?
Thanks,
Aaron
The smallest manual one is the Minolta 20 (NG 20). Half the size of a cassette (although thicker). It takes 2 AA. The trigger voltage on these older flashes is often very high: no problem with a camera like the MX or LX but may damage the latest ones.
Sunpack Softlite 1600A and 2000A (NG 16 and 20) are the smallest 2AA Auto flash. No thyristor though : even if the subject needs only a little bit of light, the flash won't keep the part of the charge that has not been used. No real compact flash has thyristor electronics.
I'd be curious to know what is the smallest 2AA thyristor flash.
Pentax AF-200T is a rather small thyristor flash but takes 4AA. Can be used with a winder as manual output can be cut by 2,4,8 and 16 if I remember well. This could be usefull also for non-TTL macros.
Andre
