P3D Re: Vivitar 283/285/292?

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

> Does anyone have a guide number for the 292? 

I originally posted that it was 150, but in checking
my booklet, it's 130.  At ASA 100.

> If one had their choice with
> say only about $20 difference, which would be better for Realist format?
> The 285 vs 292?

I haven't used a 285 so I can't speak about that.  But the 292
works nicely, and as I've mentioned, I've four of them (with
three battery packs and four chargers) for which I spent 
about $20 TOTAL, not counting the replacement NiCad Cells
(not insignificant percentage wise).

Two SC-1's (remote sensors) were found for $1/each about a year
or two apart.

Of course, with great patience, 285's probably could be found quite
inexpensively too.  The advantage of having tremendously more 
projects than one has time for is that one can be very patient
collecting "stuff" for each one.  :-)

Mike K.

P.S. - Note that the "normal" orientation for the 292 is
       "sideways" (hot shoe has a joint that goes +/- 90 deg
       from "vertical).  Lowers the center of gravity and spreads
       the light out wider.

P.P.S. - With the remote sensor (that *can* attached directly to 
         the 292 making a non-remote remote, in addition to being
         able to use a cable) one can set the f/stop to anything
         one wants.  The "internal" flash has three position choices
         (f-stops), but the remote seems to have a potentiometer
         that allows continuous setting of the "expected" camera
         f/stop.


> 
> THANKS
> 
> --Bob W.
> 
> wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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