Thursday, July 11, 2002, 12:19:20 PM, Łukasz wrote: ŁK> Hi all, ŁK> I've just bought my first flash - a Vivitar 283, and as usual I have some ŁK> questions. First of all - where can I find an online manual for it? ŁK> The "light emiting thing" of this particular specimen is a bit yellowish - ŁK> is it normal, or will my color photos have a yellow cast? ŁK> Thanks in advance, ŁK> Łukasz
It's normal, in fact, it's good - flash is normally TOO much blue especially for fill flash. Most photogs use warm filter gel over the flash head. Check if the 283 is the earlier high voltage synch version or the later safe version, it wouldn't matter on mechanical cameras but could ruin your eletronic or TTL flash camera. Check with voltmeter the flash terminals on flash. 6V or so is safe. The earlier was about 60 -200V... Frantisek - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
