On Aug 4, 2005, at 11:58 PM, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
I can certainly see the beam of the AF500FTZ and it's red. It is not as disruptive as the white beam I have seen coming off Nikon bodies, but YMMV.
I can't find my AA batteries to check for myself, but the AF-500FTZ manual clearly states that it's IR. It may just be a reddish shade of IR... how bright does it look?
Now that I've actually bothered to look at the manual, you can indeed use the flash exclusively as a spot-beam, by setting the sync switch to "SB". In that mode the flash won't fire.
Cheers, - Dave
