When the AF540 works, it can do a good job.
Mine has been in for servicing several times, the latch on the shoe
keeps breaking.
It will not stay in manual mode, and the user interface is cryptic (to
change slave mode, hold the light button down for several seconds), and
auto metering seems to get flummoxed by a bright reflection here or
there, though that may be a camera issue.
I have a couple of used Promasters that combined cost me about a third
of what I paid for the AF540, and until I got a camera that had decent
p-ttl metering, I used far more than the AF-540.
So apart from unreliability, being a bit hard to use, and not staying in
manual mode when P-TTL isn't working, the AF540 is a decent flash.
If I had the money to buy a new flash, I'd buy a Metz.
On 1/27/2012 10:28 AM, Robert and Leigh Woerner wrote:
I am going to buy a new flash soon. I currently have the AF360 and want to
upgrade. Any thoughts/opinions/real experience with the Pentax AF540 vs a Metz
58 AF2? I am also open to other recommendations. I am mainly concerned ref
reported build quality issues of the Pentax unit and hot shoe sticking problems.
Thanks in advance,
Robert
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