Vivitar 285HV Auto Professional Flash @ richardeward.com

Vivitar 285HV Auto Professional Flash
from Vivitar

Features:

• Vertical bounce flash
• Auto Thyristor circuitry
• Sufficient-light indicator
• Illuminated calculator dial

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• true work horse
  A really Strong Flash unit.. I recommend it to anyone. It would be and excellenet choice.

• Great, if you know what you're doing
  Great manual control.
  Not so much on auto mode. Better take a TTL flash, if you don't want to think.

• High Voltage did Not Work on Mine Either
  I have also had disappointments with the newly manufactured 285. I purchased two brand new. The first one did not work with my turbo pack, and the second one worked with the turbo pack when I tested it, but failed at a gig. Very frustrating. I returned both for a refund. From what I understand is the new models are now made in China under the brand name Vivitar, and are no longer a Japanese product.
  Chris Maness Photography

• solid work horse with a gotcha
  I started out buying more expensive Canon flashes but didn't need the E-TTL features. Based on a web review, I bought a couple of Vivitar 285HV's and used them with my existing off-camera triggering system (which consists of Elinchrom Skyport radio triggers and Wein optical hot shoe triggers). All of my existing triggers fired through the hot shoe of the flash and have worked with a variety of flashes, including older Vivitar 283 flashes.
  However, the 285HV is triggered on a different contact point... more info

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