Thanks for the link .... These are certainly going to add significantly to the range of choices we have available to us, and of course they are guaranteed to keep this forum busy with questions, confusions and ongoing 'trigger war' debates !
On the surface they appear to offer a combination of features from both the Acon 930 and Cactus V6II, ie radio TTL with support for all the 'subset' functions of that, plus manual power control for 3 groups with a decent interface and buttons. Those are the key characteristics I can see. Of course the Cactus products offer a number of additional features over and above basic remote power and group control, but the Metz seems to offer at least the basics for us 'real strobists'.
Just like with the Acon product, there's nothing yet to explain how the Metz transceiver will manage more than one P-TTL slaves in terms of exposure control, ratios and compensations. We do not have the sophistications of the CLS and E-TTL with their multiple pre-flashes in sequence, so its difficult to assume that we will have anything more than single flash P-TTL remote control ...... ? But I look forward to being wrong on that!
Beholder3, you said earlier the the latest Pentax flashes would be supported .... Do you mind giving more info about this if you have any? I note that the press release states that the new transceiver product is for Metz flashes, and doesn't refer to any others.
It suffers also from translation woes ....I puzzled over this sentence ... ' The recording mode and exposure correction for distance flashes can be set individually using the transceiver' .... Anyone hazard a guess as to what this might mean? Is it in fact referring to using multiple flashes in P-TTL mode?