My metz 58 af-2 arrived in the mail today. I haven't had a chance to do any "real photography" with it yet, but my first impressions are:
It's a bit smaller than the AF540 in just about every dimension. It has several features that the Pentax doesn't: The second flash on the front A stroboscopic mode (can set power, number of flashes and frequency) flash bracketing USB update for firmware Manual power control in 1/3 stop intervals to 1/256 power I am not entirely thrilled with the user interface. I don't have specific suggestions for how to make it better, but it isn't really trivial, or intuitive, to adjust anything on it. It was a bit of a pain finding an English only, PDF of the manual for the pentax version to download to my tablet. It will be interesting to see whether it stays in manual mode when set there (unlike the pentax), or how long it will work between needing to be sent in for repair. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
