Get the 140C. It's sufficiently powerful for portraiture, is more versatile regarding lens size and it works with TTL flash.
Regards, Bob... -------------------- "Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that 'if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.' It is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event." - Samuel Adams, 1771 From: "Bolo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've been considering getting a ringlight for closeup and macro > photography. The choices of Pentax equipment are the no-longer-made > AF-080C, and the newer AF-140C. > > The obvious tradeoffs I see is the AF-080C is less powerful than > the AF-140C. I assume for macro work that will affect how far > I can stop down to get a reasonable depth of field. The AF-080C, > can use the same external power supplies which the AF-400T uses. > The AF-140C doesn't seem to take any external power. On the other > hand, the 140C fits on lenses of filter size 49,52,58mm, unlike the > 080C, which only fits on 49mm? lenses. > > I'd like to use the ringlight for macro and near macro photography. > For example, construction details, closeups of intricate 3d structures, > and scale model (HO through G scale) photography. Admittedly, G > scale may be large enough for conventional flash gear. The reason > I'd like the ringlight is to be able to use a single flash and not > have bad shadows cast by it. As a secondary consideration I'd also > like to use the ringlight for some portraiture type work. > > I was wondering if any of you had thoughts or comments about the > two ringlights and what the real photography tradeoffs are between > the two. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
