Mirrorless Discussion Forums. Pentax KP. Pentax K-3 III. Pentax K New Posts. Today's Threads. Recent Updates. Unanswered Threads. Recently Liked Posts. Forum RSS Feed. Recommended By. Review Date: January 4, Cheap, relatively compact, auto mode, bounce. This review shares a lot of text with my review of the Vivitar D.
I'm mostly writing this for those that have found an old flash in an attic, yard sale, or thrift shop and want to know what it is and how to use it. It's closely related to the Vivitar D family of flashes - the body is almost identical, but it has an additional TTL mode. Vivitar must have had someone whose job was to rename existing products.
The Vivitar 5 3 0FD is similar, but with no bounce head and slightly less power. Considering that these seem to be the only Vivitar flashes with an F in the name, the F might be for the Four operating modes. My manual says "Printed in ", which sounds about right. Vivitar sold them for quite awhile, but keep in mind that this is an early s design. There is nothing digital about it. A thyristor is an electronic device to cut off the flash without wasting battery power.
Previous automatic flashes would short out the capacitor, using a full charge for every flash regardless of how much light was emitted. By "dedicated", it means the flash tells the camera when it is charged, via a Ready pin on the hotshoe. That is all. The flash does not set the shutter speed or f-stop. The body may detect the "ready" signal and select the shutter speed, but this depends on the camera body, not the flash.
A Pentax body probably won't detect those flashes. This is the s TTL, which required a sensor in the camera body. Simply cut the purple and white wires which are for Olympus and Minolta cameras inside the unit and it no longer confuses the cameras shutter speed for flash shooting. Still playing with it to figure out its limitations but the various modes on the flash provide different results as needed.
Overall, for how cheap these flashes can be bought for, it is an excellent value. It will do the job until I can upgrade to a newer Pentax flash, which are very expensive in comparision to this unit. Flash arrived on time and in excellent condition. It works like a brand new product.
Verified purchase: Yes Condition: Pre-owned. Just what I needed for my nikon fe. Well build , dependable. Exactly what I needed! Works great and shipped fast. Click here for PDF. Vivitar Soft Light Bounce for Vivitar HV flash instruction manual. Vivitar Flash unit instruction manual. Vivitar DF Series 1. Vivitar FD N Flash instruction manual. Vivitar DF instruction manual. Other languages. Vivitar AF M. Although a lot of people only upload images to Instagram from their smartphones, the app is much more than just a mobile photography platform.
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