there are vivitar generic ring led flashes on ebay for about $70 GN of 60 at ISO 100, pretty powerful. Not sure if they have manual flash power control or not. model DR-6000
----------------- J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net ----------------- -----Original Message----- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Larry Colen Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 11:30 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Anybody got a line on an inexpensive ring flash? Unfortunately, when I started digging into what it would cost to upgrade my tripod/monopod heads, and do it right, it rapidly exceeded my birthday present budget. I was trying to photograph a spider eating a fly this afternoon, and tried several variations of the flash, including my el cheapo passive ringflash adapter, which threw away too much light for what I was trying to do. I don't have $500 to buy the Pentax ring flash, at least not new. I don't care if it's pure manual operation. I'd like it to be powerful enough that I could also use it for fill when doing portrait photography. I think I'd prefer flash to LED, because if I'm hand holding a macro shot, anything that'll help freeze motion is helpful. Especially if I'm photographing a flower and it's at all breezy outside. Anybody have any recommendations of flashes to look at? Or, for that matter, ones to avoid? Or know of any awesome deals on a used one. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
