Originally posted by bdery You can verify this easily if you have a multimeter. Just power up the flash, fire it once, connect the multimeter to the trigger pin and ground tab (on the side of the foot), fire it again, and look at the highest voltage value you see while it recharges.
Above 12V is risky.
That flash could still be used off-camera, but I think it does not have many power level controls.
Thanks for the info.... just over 250V...actually it was -250V so it should be OK right? -250 is less than 12!
Having looked at some of my photos, I realize I use the on camera flash very little. The occasional "portrait" shot and of course landscapes (
). The one case I can clearly say a better flash would have come in handy, I may have been able to "fix" with a little clip on diffuser.
The times when I could have really used an external flash was doing some macro stuff, so I may have to look at a ring light instead of a flash.... dang... my shopping list just longer!