Flashes

1. Classification of flash units
2. Are third party flashes any good ?
3. Compatibility problem of SCA system flashes on PZ-1p
4. Metz vs Pentax

Flash feature comparison

From rps@mat.uc.pt Thu Apr 6 07:05 MST 1995
From: rps@mat.uc.pt (Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro)
Subject: Re: Pentax FAQ
To: bmtong@cs.arizona.edu (Bo-Ming Tong)
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 95 15:55:59 MET DST

I have already gathered this table (from another Pentax user (Axel Belinfante ( AXEL.BELINFANTE@CS.UTWENTE.NL)) and from the Nikon FAQ ).

		GN
	50		85	#A	AZ	AF	ST	WR	See also
Pentax AF330FTZ			33	0	Y	Y	N	N
Pentax AF500FTZ			50	2	Y	Y	Y	Y	1
Metz 32 MZ-2	32		37	2	Y	Y	N	N
Metz 40 MZ-2	40		46	2	Y	Y	Y	T	1
Metz 50 MZ-5	50			2	Y	Y	Y		1

#A - number of head axles
AZ - auto zoom head
AF - AutoFocus spotbeam
ST - Stroboscopic flash
WR - wireless remote (T - TTL)