I've been working with a two flashes trying to improve my portrait skills for a while. I have to say the ability to adjust the flashes from the camera position, either in TTL or Manual, is much more than a convenience for me.
Since the flash units don't have modeling lights I really like the ability to make small changes in the light output to accommodate a small pose change. Also, the flash may be high up on a stand with the control panel out of reach or out of sight. An adjustment would either require climbing a ladder or lowering the light stand then trying to return it to the same position. All the while the subject is sitting there getting out of the mood. Using the built-in flash in the 'command only" mode was a brilliant design move. That allows amateurs on a budget to slowly move into remote flash control without buying extra equipment. I think that feature is under appreciated by many. Nikon works slightly better than Pentax for this, but both work well. Canon is just now figuring out that remote flash is valuable and has started to put those features into some of their equipment. Everyone doesn't work the same way, and I wouldn't suggest that they should. But for me this method work pretty well. gs George Sinos -------------------- www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 01:07:23PM +1000, Rob Studdert wrote: >> I just got myself a Metz 58 AF-2, it seems up to the task and is very >> much more affordable here than the Pentax 540. > > I'm happy, though not ecstatic with my Metz. A few things are more > awkward than they should be, like adjusting power in manual mode. > > I'm seriously looking at one of those midwest photo lumopros as a > manual backup to the Metz. If I'm using multiple strobes I'm not > going to be shooting in TTL mode anyways. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
