Seperate flashgun.

Ben03 · Seperate flashgun.

Can anyone shed any light (pardon the pun) on what sort of price range I'm looking at for getting a seperate flashgun for a Pentax ist dl? Also where's the best (cheapest) place to shop for these sort of things?

abruce

Pentax have never really done the whole dedicated-flash thing like Canon+Nikon, thus yo are basically looking at ANY flash with a manual setting....
My mate who does bmx photography uses Vivitar flahes (a Vivitar 285HV) cause its powerful with an auto setting and easy manual settings and it has a zoom head (found one for £80 here: http://www.speedgraphic.co.uk/prod.asp?i=9984&1=Vivitar+285HV)
He has a few of them and mounts them on tripods and ues pocket-wizards to set them off wirelessly, all at the same time.

only warning is that old flashes are triggered by up to 200v; this will fry your camera... new flashes like the 285hv, or nikon sb's or canon ex's or metz use under 6v, so won't kill your little digital.

have fun.

Ben03

Cheers buddy, very helpful post! Cool