It's not just your luck with flashes. I have a pair of AF280T's one of
which only works at full power, well, used to only work at full power,
after sitting on the shelf for a couple of years, it's stopped working
entirely. It was a replacement for the same unit that was also giving
me trouble, but while I was testing it the batteries, (when has a modern
battery leaked let alone three of four in a single installation), which
solved my problem, and Duracell paid for replacing it.
I figured that I'd just go with something like Vivitar 285hv's as a
cheap alternative, since Pentax Digital and TTL didn't seem to work well
together, and they have a pretty good if limited amount of manual
adjustments, but the newly made ones don't seem to be all that reliable,
(now, they're once again discontinued, and used units appear to be made
of unoptainium), and yes I've been toying with the getting a couple of
Yongnuo 560 III units, (damn I just checked and those are discontinued
too), but once again user ratings point to extremely variable QA
testing, or maybe no QA testing, and it seems very limited warranty support.
Bottom line it seems that no inexpensive flashes are very good these
days, and even what appear to be expensive flash units aren't
particularly reliable either.
On 9/14/2015 5:40 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
I pulled my metz 58 af-2 out of the bag a short while ago and the
release for the head swivel has broken. It points forward, and I can
get it to go a bit up, but the tilt/swivel seems to be busted. The
release button seems to be stuck part way in.
I had hardly been using it lately because I had been using the
yongnuos, but they fried on me and only fire at full power. This, of
course, as I'm preparing to leave for a trip in just over 40 hours.
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