For power and flexiblity per dollar for your Super Program (and mine), I can't speak highly enough of the Ritz Photo Quantary 35-85mm zoom bounce flash with a modular (interchangeable) dedicated base. It's actually a rebadged respecced version of one of the well-known affordable third-party flashes, whose name escapes me. (The brand whose distributor also distributes Slik) Ritz and Penn Camera sell several modular dedicated models, including Pentax MF and AF versions. I'm speaking of the most powerful, rated at something like 126 ft. It costs around $100 plus $15 module, as I recall; I bought mine three years ago.
You can use ISOs uo to 1000. If you know what you're doing (which I don't), you can use the flash manually. The head tilts and swivels. You can select or deselct a small direct-fire fill flash (with the full-head only, not by itself), and you can switch bases when you swith cameras. I'm hoping mine will fit my pending Ricoh XR-P (which is TTL-capable), but if it doesn't, a $15 base module will make it so. If I accidentally snap off the base, I'm back in business for $15. My only gripe, besides the huge size and hefty weight, is that the zoom head requires a snap-in diffuser (easy to lose) to go as wide as 28mm. By the way, DC-area PDMLers, Penn Camera in Tyson's Corner VA has a used Pentax AF400T, I believe, for $150. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . - 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 .
