Originally posted by andy888 He seems very skillful commenting things he never use and called for , FAIR.
You cannot stop attacking me (with unfounded allegations), can you?
Anyhow, attacks on me are just annoying to me and show poor form on your part but your attacks on competitor products may actually mislead people so I'll comment on them:
Alleged "Fake Manual": There is nothing fake about the manual levels produced by a V6II. All that you demonstrated is that some antiquated lightmeter technology is unable to take a pre-flash into account. Even the cheapest Yongnuo flashes manage to suppress pre-flashes, if so instructed. In any event, I don't know many people using lightmeters. They just give you a technically correct exposure starting point anyhow. Any artistic choices will mean subsequent tweaking. It doesn't take much longer to start with an educated guess and tweak from there. There are a few very isolated use cases for light meters but they are hardly relevant for the majority of flash users.
Lack of "Ready" signal: All decent flashes allow one to set them up so that they emit a beep when they have completely recycled. I don't know of any strobist who is asking for more than that. Yes, it would be nice if the camera could show in the viewfinder whether the flash is ready to fire again, but which flash system shows this ready signal after the slowest of a number of flashes has recycled? Does a system like that exist? Did the lack of such an "in viewfinder" indicator ever stop anyone using flashes successfully? A simple trick is to just not spray and pray like a madman when using flashes.
Alleged Lack of Reliability: With some of your videos it is hard to tell what you are trying to convey with them because they are very blurry and have no sound. But it appears a couple of your videos are trying to provide proof that the V6II is unreliable. Fact is, either you are incapable or unwilling to set up your units correctly, or you have defective units. The reliability you demonstrate is atrocious and it is clear as day that if the V6II actually performed like this that Cactus wouldn't be able to sell even one unit. Fact is, I can fire with a V6II from LiveView (your claim to the contrary is incorrect) and I have excellent reliability with all my three cameras -- K100D, K-5II, K-1 -- (your demonstrations simply show a wrong set up or defective hardware, or a flash that takes forever to recycle because its batteries are about to die).
In none of your videos one can see the set up you are using. For all we know, you could be using a wrong flash profile or an incompatible flash (the video quality is so bad, one cannot even tell whether you are using a Nikon SB-700 or a clone). In one video you show the receiver status display briefly at the beginning but then you take the flash and receiver out of the frame. One can hear you operate buttons and it takes quite a while before you put the flash on the table. What have you done during this time? How is showing the settings in the beginning helpful in any way given that you seem to be changing things afterwards? That's like a magician allowing the audience to check a card deck but then taking the card deck out of sight to then present another card set. Is it the same card deck that people were allowed to inspect before? Who knows? For sure we know that the initial inspection is pointless unless there is no chance to swap out the card deck against another.
You may be using 1/128 of a power, but perhaps you are not. If you are using 1/1 power, for instance, some of the misfires could be explained by the flash not being allowed to completely recycle before you take the next shot. Perhaps the flash batteries are almost empty, causing extremely long recycle times? Something is definitely wrong in your test.
Again, I cannot confirm any of the problems and issues you claim to demonstrate from my own experience and neither could a number of V6II users on this forum who have been using the V6II successfully. Do you really actually believe that what you have captured on video (with unknown hardware, firmware versions, and settings) is representative of how a V6II behaves? Seriously? I mean even if that's your genuine experience, why would you not wonder whether you have a defective unit or the wrong settings? I simply don't get it.