On Tue, April 2, 2013 3:43 pm, Zos Xavius wrote: > I've looked very long and hard at this flash. Read the reviews. They > all say the same thing. Half of these arrive broken with no way to > return them to china in time to get an exchange. If you can get one at
That's good to know. > b&h that's better cuz you can return it at least. Other problem is that > they tend to work for a month or two and the capacitors die. I guess you Even more important. > get what you pay for. Their wireless system is decent though. There are I might have some of their cheapo wireless triggers. > probably better options even used at that price point. The vivtars are > rebranded, but reliable...though new they cost a bit more. An old > autothyristor would actually serve well if you translate the focal lengths > provided your lucky enough to find a zoom head. For off camera flashes > firing at lower power than 1/1, these cheap flashes do make a nice > lighting addition with some diffusion. I seriously wish someone would come up with a wifi flash control standard, which could work across all brands of cameras and flashes. Of course, that's probably why nobody will. Canon would hate it if you could control a Nikon flash with a Canon camera, pocketwizard would go out of business etc. > > Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>While waiting for Adorama or B&H to return from passover holiday, I was >>doing some more poking around, and ran across the yn 560 series. >> >>The yn560iii seems to be a full manual flash, with a built in radio >>trigger. >>This seems very, cool and handy. They also seem to sell for about $80. >> >>http://www.diyphotographystuff.info/3132/yn560iii-review-first-built-in-radio-trigger-flash/ > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Larry Colen via squirrelmail -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
