i was looking at the price for pentax flashes on ebay, and noticed that they had put their prices down into the $350 (aud) dollar range. this really got me going (till i remembered shipping was pretty expensive from those guys), then i thought (cos i already had some nd filters ordered from adorama in the us), and us prices are so good already, it'd prolly be cheaper to get the flash there and combine the shipping. of course that was how it turned out, and now i have some nd filters and a new flash coming my way soon .
i was originally going to wait till next year, but i thought, i need to complete my kit now, so now, i pretty much don't need to get anything else. i'm pretty happy with my lenses, covering 16-200mm with two primes and two zooms, and a flash to finish off. i have a couple lenses still on my wishlist , but they are primes in the range of my 16-45, so not absolutely necessary at the moment.
anyways, back to the flash, i got the af540fgz, which is the top of the range model for pentax (there are only three ), with bounce, swivel, zoom, all that jazz. the price difference to australia is ridiculous, basically i can get the same flash for half the price from hong kong, or america, why would i bother getting it locally?
just to finish off, the nd filters i'm getting a two stop hoya hmc filters, so i should be able to get better pictures in harsh light, and also longer expisures in fading light sooner . more on both when they arrive (no idea when, i'll post a note when they update the shipping status).
pic taken from the pentax au web site.
#33 dtra (david tran)
haha!! awesome. congratulations on the flash... hopefully you figure out how to use it a bit better than me 
will the flash work remotely with your camera?
alf
-
16:50, 3rd-nov-2007
lol, i don't think so, i gotta find out if it can be triggered by the onboard flash (i don't think so), but still, i'm a bit sick of having to turn the iso right up just to get 1/20 shutter speed indoors at night. hopefully, that's the end of my shopping spree, and i can concentrate on taking photos
dtra
-
17:16, 3rd-nov-2007
you need two external flashes to get wireless working 
... maybe next year
dtra
-
17:28, 3rd-nov-2007
damn, i was hoping the stuff would arrive today, oh well, guess i'll have to wait till wednesday, i was gonna struggle to fit it into my backpack today anyway.
dtra
-
21:15, 5th-nov-2007
it's here!! flash and three filters, pretty fast i guess, i'll hopefully have a play with it/them tonight
dtra
-
14:07, 7th-nov-2007
), but in the spirit of the day, i took a picture at least....