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External Flash...
#1

I'd like to buy an external flash to use with my Panny FZ10. The owner's manual (yes, I actually read it!) says something about only using flash units designed for use with digital cameras due to voltage differences... Is this just in the hopes I'll buy an expensive Panasonic product? I'd prefer to just go out and buya cheap used flash unit...

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Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ10
Image Management/Editing:ArcSoft PhotoBase4
Advanced Image Editing: Adobe PhotoShop 7
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#2

Hm... I googled a bit, and here's what our friends at dcresource say:

"Thanks to its hot shoe, the FZ10 also supports an external flash. Panasonic would be happy to sell you their PE-28S flash ($150), but you can use any standard flash with the camera."

Try to get one with a swivel head so you can bounce it off the roof Smile


By the way, is your panny a black one? Big Grin
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#3

yep, it's black... it would've been a 2-week wait for a silver one plus they discontinued the black one (I suppose because the FZ20 was on it's way). I actually like it better... silver screams 'point & shoot'! Wink

re Flash: I suspected that the manual was just being over-cautious in the hopes you'd buy their stuff... thanks for the input.

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Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ10
Image Management/Editing:ArcSoft PhotoBase4
Advanced Image Editing: Adobe PhotoShop 7
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#4

Phew - the black looks way better! Big Grin
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#5

Does this flash have slave function ? ..
im looking for a cheap slave flash ~_~
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#6

What flash? Rolleyes
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#7

ahha my bad.. i thought you werre talking about a specific flash ...
hey Julian ..
do you know how good the quality of sunpak flashes are ...
i sawone for about 450 with slave function on it from dirt cheap ..
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#8

No, not really. I've only used the Canon 550EX, so no experience.

Check here though:
http://www.photographyreview.com/pscFlas...30crx.aspx

Just make sure it's got tilt and swivel so that you can bounce it off ceilings and walls.


Check the wide end of the zoom as well - some of them are only 35mm so the flash may fall off at the edges (I think...) Big Grin
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#9

hrmm yeah ... the sunpak one is tilt and swivel ..
its got quite a few functions as well ..
i dont use flash much ..
so its a bit dear for the amount that i would use it ..
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#10

I want to get a flash, but its quite hard deciding which one when I don't know why I need it: probably for fill flash when outdoors, and group pictures and things like that.

The sigma DG ST-500 DG (off memory, so may have got the name wrong) has similar features to that of canon 550EX, but a lot cheaper.
Or should I go for 420EX?

Quite hard when I don't have specific requirements, i just find the in-built flash sometimes a little too weak;
also, want a diffuser with it Smile
The flash can get a little harshm giving me magical white rabbits with disgustingshadows Smile

I'm sure (or have a feeling that) this was discussed earlier in another thread Smile
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#11

Get a Slave flash
so i can use as well ..huauhauha
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#12

Then I'll get a slave to carry it around (and operate) for me.

Peter can be my flash slave.
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#13

i will never be your slave!!!
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#14

You can be my slave flasher.
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#15

lol you guys... Big Grin

just don't expose your film in public Big Grin
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