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Forum: Flashes, Lighting, and Studio
12-26-2014, 10:47 AM
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I have the Sigma 500 Super, a nearly identical earlier model. It's comparable to the Pentax AF 360-FGZ. It has swivel, which the 360 does not.
It's powerful enough for most work, more than you need for portrait and macro. For portraits I use almost straight up bounce to avoid red eye and get more even lighting, so I do need more power and this flash has it. Compatibility, power and durability is good. The worst thing about it is the manual. They translate directly from the Japanese I suppose. The language is confusing and unclear. Some things are not in the manual and you have to figure them out. To change modes you have to walk through many menus sometimes. It eats batteries faster than I like. It's big. For my 500, I found the following Cheatsheet on the web to be very handy: http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/ef500cheatsheet-a4.pdf
Overall it's a good value with a lousy human interface. With Pentax, you get much a better manual and more logical operation. It's much easier to use. But if you don't change setups much, Sigma is fine.
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