For most people, Vivitar is probably recognised as a manufacturer of cheapo point and shoot cameras sold on supermarket shelves. Well, rather contrary to that, it is a fairly well-known manufacturer of photographic and optical equipments based in California.
The company is probably better known for their high quality no-frills flash guns that are quite popular among photograhers. Last week I purchase a Vivitar DF200 digital slave flash gun from ebay. I reckon I got a good deal, the whole thing only cost me a mere $61 and it came with a mini tripod as well as an adaptor for attachment onto normal camera tripod. As you can see in the photo, the Vivitar is significantly bigger than my Canon speedlite.
The flash from this Vivitar is extremely powerful and will definitely help me in various photographic applications. Now I just need to get a difuser to fit on... back to ebay soon :) The flash is wireless and it works by detecting flash from another source and fires its flash at the same time. The only downside to that technology is that the flash may get confused if they are others using flash nearby. Below is a result of an earlier experiment with the flash in a 90 degree arrangement with my Canon speedlite. Despite a slight over-exposure, overall the result was quite satisfactory I think :)
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Vivitar DF200
Posted by kimtojin at 9:30 PM
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Cool man, now you've got 2 flashes to work with. That should come in handy for studio,portrait-type shots. $61 is a bargain! I had to pay $300 for my Nikon speedlight.
hehe! Yea...I always wanted to do portrait but I have no models..would you like to be one? :)
Sorry, u can't afford me man! I don't get out of bed for less than $10,000. :p
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