Just curious who uses what flash gear

[jeremy rundle]

I use different flash gear depending on what/where I shoot, in fact I really only began using flash just over three years ago, Oh I bought a top of the line Sunpak AZ4000 when it first came out and still have it and it works on my Nikkormat, but I was never that confident, then I decided to go for it and go a Metz 45 CL-4 digital and never looked back, I now have 2, along with a Metz 44 AF1 for my Canon and a backup Sunpak PZ42X and a SB910 Nikon.

 

The most versatile are the CL4s, as they work with anything any make of camera with the right SCA, the SB910, the SB910 Nikon offers me strobe effect when needed and a great gun, and the Sunpak is a great little gun

 

My flashguns are as indispensable to me as the camera itself, especially the power and reliability of the hammerheads.

 

Anyone else

 

THIS is "Strobe" not as in the USA where the flash gun is called a strobe, I think this was at 20Hz and shows the movement of the wings

Edited April 30, 2014 by jeremy rundle

[bugmeister]

I currently use a Canon 580EXii for most of my non-macro work with a 430EX as slave if appropriate. The 580 also does multiflash although I seldom use it unless I'm trying to demonstrate it's use at the camera club (e.g. catching water drops)

 

For Macro I use a Canon MR14 ring flash, normally with unbalanced tubes (one brighter than the other)

[Black Pearl]

I use a pair of Nikon Speedlight's (thats LIGHT not LITE  ) day to day and have a mate with a few Elincrom Quadra's if I need anything more serious. Almost always use the Nikon's in CLS mode and use PocketWizard triggers on the Elincrom's.

[pdcpic]

I use a pair yongnuo speedlights,.. the 560-II and 560-III

for macro I use a vintage starblitz macro flash ring

I am on a budget!! I love my yongnuos though

[ChrisLumix]

Back in the day when I had a Minolta SLR I used a Vivitar unit that was dedicated to the camera's hot shoe so it gave me TTL flash. I believe it was Vivitar who also made the 'standard' by which other flashes were measured? Can't remember, but I think the model number was something like 285 or 385 (I'm probably way out - Robin will correct me).

[Black Pearl]

The Vivitar 283 was the really popular one with the 285 being the better spec'd, premium if you will, bigger brother.

Properly good workhorse flash guns but I think you need to be very cautious using them on a modern camera as I'm sure the trigger voltages are sky high and could fry your cameras circuits.

Loads of accessories were available and I remember a shelf full of black boxes with red lettering in my stockroom.

[ChrisLumix]

The Vivitar 283 was the really popular one with the 285 being the better spec'd, premium if you will, bigger brother.

Properly good workhorse flash guns but I think you need to be very cautious using them on a modern camera as I'm sure the trigger voltages are sky high and could fry your cameras circuits.

Loads of accessories were available and I remember a shelf full of black boxes with red lettering in my stockroom.

 

I was right to call them a 'standard' - I just went to the Vivitar site and the 285 is still on sale! Only now it's the 285-HV (presumably for digicams?) and has been joined by a more powerful sibling, the 385-HV with a pretty awesome guide number of 42 metres at 85mm.