Is $370 a good price for a brand new Metz 58?

rustynail925 · 07-03-2010, 07:05 AM

Is $370 a good price for a brand new Metz 58?
Im planning to buy an external flash and im thinking of the metz 58
is this good for practicing strobes? lighting technique?

Ratmagiclady · 07-03-2010, 07:20 AM

Originally posted by rustynail925

Is $370 a good price for a brand new Metz 58?
Im planning to buy an external flash and im thinking of the metz 58
is this good for practicing strobes? lighting technique?

Yeah, I think that's a pretty decent price, at least last I looked. They run about four hundred, usually. (I don't know how prices run, where you are.) That's a top-of-the-line flash, so it should be able to do most things you want to learn about, if you don't mind it being pretty complex.

rustynail925 · 07-03-2010, 07:35 AM

Is it better than the top of the line pentax af540?
Can this be use also for studio lighting? like in an umbrella or softbox?

kboyaobir · 07-03-2010, 08:07 AM

people who own it say it as a top notch flash, as good as it gets in a pentax flash system. it has all bells and whistles.

one thing though, before you go and spend all that money on a flash.

for strobist purposes - off camera flash - you can go much cheaper than that. for strobist stuff, you dont need pttl (which this flash has). but off course, metz 54 is capable of studio lighting, off camera work, on camera work - everything...

rustynail925 · 07-03-2010, 08:18 AM

Is this the typical flash use outdoors?
thanks for the infos

07-03-2010, 07:05 AM	#1
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07-03-2010, 07:20 AM	#2
Ratmagiclady Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: GA Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 13,563	Originally posted by rustynail925 Is $370 a good price for a brand new Metz 58? Im planning to buy an external flash and im thinking of the metz 58 is this good for practicing strobes? lighting technique? Yeah, I think that's a pretty decent price, at least last I looked. They run about four hundred, usually. (I don't know how prices run, where you are.) That's a top-of-the-line flash, so it should be able to do most things you want to learn about, if you don't mind it being pretty complex.

07-03-2010, 07:35 AM	#3
rustynail925 Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Philippines Photos: Gallery Posts: 1,551 Original Poster	Is it better than the top of the line pentax af540? Can this be use also for studio lighting? like in an umbrella or softbox?

07-03-2010, 08:07 AM	#4
kboyaobir New Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Zagreb Photos: Gallery Posts: 5	people who own it say it as a top notch flash, as good as it gets in a pentax flash system. it has all bells and whistles. one thing though, before you go and spend all that money on a flash. for strobist purposes - off camera flash - you can go much cheaper than that. for strobist stuff, you dont need pttl (which this flash has). but off course, metz 54 is capable of studio lighting, off camera work, on camera work - everything...

07-03-2010, 08:18 AM	#5
rustynail925 Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Philippines Photos: Gallery Posts: 1,551 Original Poster	Is this the typical flash use outdoors? thanks for the infos