After some discussion a while back regarding a small, light external flash unit to trigger other flashes' by slave, Adam Maas mentioned the Nikon SB-30.
I looked it up and it looked very nice: teensy, decent power for its size, three manual power settings and four Auto settings, simple EV compensation (TTL and other Nikon system specific settings are irrelevant for my uses but it's got several of those as well). And a built in diffuser for wide angle along with an IR flash shield so it can be used to just drive slave triggers without contributing to the exposure. I wanted something less bulky to haul about for triggering the Paterson E-Flash panel strobes and other light duty flash use so I bought one from Henry's for $40. Trigger voltage according to my VOM is 4.7 Volts DC. It's a little smaller than the size of my Fuji F30 pocket cam but lighter. It works well. I've used it on both the K10D and *ist DS hotshoe to slave the Patersons for well over 400 flash shots with the supplied lithium battery at M1/32 power output, and it's still going strong. (All the photos I made for Ebay sales recently and the set showing the Crumpler 7 Million Dollar Home bag were made using it.) It's also completely silent. Good call, thanks Adam! Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
