The LED add-on to the flash is a brilliant move, and way more useful than the WR waterproofing. I understand the motivation to cement WR as a brand-wide thing, but it's unlikely to be of very much practical use to anyone. Brightly lit raindrops or snowflakes anyone?
But the constant light source for video is unique in speedlights and will probably get copied. Well, well: somebody's actually awake in their R&D department. I like that the new flash models are reduced in height too. The original 540 is too tall to fit in my Westcott mini softbox and I'm using an old AF200 instead. I don't like that the focus assist function only works with the latest camera bodies. FA works just fine on the old AF540 with my K20D. I also don't like that the prices are (still) so high for both models. Not good value. On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Dario Bonazza <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/08/27/ricoh-introduces-weather-resistant-flash-units?utm_campaign=internal-link&utm_source=news-list&utm_medium=text&ref=title_0_1 > > http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/08/27/ricoh-announces-hd-update-to-pentax-limited-primes-15mm-f4-21mm-f32-35mm-f28-macro-40mm-f28-70mm-f24?utm_campaign=internal-link&utm_source=news-list&utm_medium=text&ref=title_0_0 > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
