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i'm torn as to what to get next- a new lens or an external flash.

 

 

 

 

anyone have any recommendations for a good nikon-compatible entry-level flash?

 

Get a Vivitar 285 and learn how to use a manual flash. They are fucking work horses. Powerful and cheap. That will be my next photo purchase. That and another pocket wizard reciever.

 

2 Pocketwizards are getting delivered tomorrow with some rechargable AA batteries and a cheap shiity optical slave flash that a friend has/recomended to me.

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Get a Vivitar 285 and learn how to use a manual flash. They are fucking work horses. Powerful and cheap. That will be my next photo purchase. That and another pocket wizard reciever.

 

2 Pocketwizards are getting delivered tomorrow with some rechargable AA batteries and a cheap shiity optical slave flash that a friend has/recomended to me.

 

 

 

 

 

that looks pretty dope, super cheap too.

 

 

 

 

 

i want a wide-angle as well...

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Another option for the flash:

 

Metz Mecablitz CT60-1

 

Mecablitz CT60-4

 

I have the 60-4. These were $800 flashes back in the 90s, but the TTL on them doesn't work with modern cameras so people don't use them much and they go cheap on eBay, but they have all kinds of manual settings and also meter very well on their own if you dial in the ISO and Aperature from your camera on the unit. They are insanely bright, guide number is something like 930 feet at ISO 1600.

 

I was shooting some DJs last weekend in an outdoor pavilion with a 60 foot roof and was able to use bounce flash off the roof for lighting at ISO 800 without any problems.

 

At more normal speeds, they'll flash at up to 5 frames per second.

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