New Member Registered: November, 2019 Posts: 1 | Review Date: March 25, 2023 | Recommended | Price: $25.75
| Rating: 9 |
Pros: | Relatively inexpensive. Gets the job done | Cons: | | | I use this in conjunction with a Vello copy of a Stroboframe and my 645D, K-1 or K-3, for which it is perfect, once any loose coiled cord has been neatly cable-tied to my bootleg Stroboframe.
Has worked very well with both Pentax AF-360FGZ and Pentax AF540FGZ11, and is equally satisfactory with my recently acquired Metz 48 AF1.
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Pentaxian Registered: May, 2009 Location: North Carolina Posts: 836 1 user found this helpful | Review Date: March 13, 2019 | Recommended | Price: $16.00
| Rating: 10 |
Pros: | inexpensive, high quality, metal where it counts | Cons: | 1/4-20 thread on flash hotshoe not very deep | | Very good off-camera TTL cord, I run mine with a stroboframe flash bracket. A 3' coiled cord is perfect.
The hotshoes that mount to the camera and flash are metal and are solid. Both include the locking pin (either male or female) to lock onto the camera or flash. The camera-side hotshoe can release with just a spring-loaded button - no lever or lock ring. Very nice.
Right now the cord is fairly stiff on mine, hoping it eases up a bit as it wears in. The stiff cord instills me with confidence that the cable will last. As with any cable like this, treat the terminations gently and you'll have years of trouble-free service. Also, the 1/4-20 thread on the flash end is not very deep - with my stroboframe, the screw bottoms out before tightening up fully. I need to either use a 1/4-20 to hotshoe adapter (that ships with most stroboframes) or build up my stroboframe with some foam rubber or gaffer's tape.
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