52ft is pretty weak - that's just under 16metres. Most tiny on-board
flashes are in the 10-12m (30-40ft) range already. The Canon 220EX
for instance is about the same size and has a GN of 22metres. I'd
rather use a good, old manual flash and one of those tiny slaves made
by Nissin, etc. I've found a few of those little slave triggers in
junk boxes for a dollar or two.
I'm using an old Sunpak Auto 124 - 24mGN, bounces and swivels to
almost any angle, two auto ranges or manual, cost bugger all. In the
hot shoe or with a Hama shoe to PC adaptor plus cord.
One of the joys of digital - trial and error with flash until the
histogram looks right!
AndrewF
On 12/01/2006, at 12:28 PM, Tim Hughes wrote:
> http://www.tocad.com/flash/digitalFlashKit.html
> Has anybody used this with their digi cams?
>
> Two mini-fill's like this can be excellent to carry in pocket and
> ask bystanders to hold while taking pics at gatherings etc. using
> remote trig.
>
> They claim wide digital compatibility by just delaying the strobe
> by 200mS after intitial preflash. It seems surprising this would
> work correctly with the wide variety of Digi cameras out there ?
> Their digi strobe handle adapter is different (better), it counts
> the # preflashes and has a number of count settings.
>
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