We have mentioned favorite all time cameras. I have had those big potato mashers like a Braun (with a ...was it 620 volt battery?) and the Metz is in the closet somewhere, but the Vivitar 283's were my favorites. Reasonably priced, reliable (except for the occasional foot) and easy to use. Boy do I wish Vivitar made an equivelent today for digital...and as econmical.
Remember blue F8 weddings?
2007-12-31 14:41:41 · 7 answers · asked by Perki88 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
I bought a Vivitar 283 with the off-camera sensor and bracket in Feb. of 1976. For nostalgia's sake I used it with my Minolta XG-9 on Nov. 17 last year (2007) to document my daughter's 30th. birthday. Used Kodak Portra 160NC and bounced off a 10' ceiling in the restaurant. (I had ordered the XG-9 from a camera store in NYC and it arrived the same day she did. I had it serviced a couple of years ago.)
I remember that at press conferences in the late 70's nearly every photographer had a 283 on their camera....
2007-12-31 21:40:59 · answer #1 · answered by EDWIN 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My Metz for the Mamiya RZ67
SB600 for the D50.
2008-01-01 03:50:22 · answer #2 · answered by Mere Mortal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to go along with the Vivitar 283 also-cheap, reliable, and more accessories than you can shake a stick at.
I have around a dozen of the darn things, all bought in varying conditions off of Ebay, and every single one works.
I've used them as straight hot shoe flashes, as handle units(potato mashers) with the Vivitar handle bracket and off-camera shoe cords, in various hand-held off camera configurations, and even bounced out of umbrellas.
With a guide number of 120(ft), they have enough muscle that you can do that.
2008-01-01 00:44:35 · answer #3 · answered by Ben H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Metz 45 CT-1. To me anyhow, this thing seemed like a light cannon. I could sit in the back row of a 25 row auditorium and get good lighting all the way to the stage. "We don't need no steenken guide numbers!" Not with 5 "auto" levels plus manual. It kicks butt.
2007-12-31 23:42:08 · answer #4 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was fond of Sunpak & Vivitar!!!
2007-12-31 23:05:11 · answer #5 · answered by Blue Hues 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Metz fan.
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2008-01-01 07:05:58 · answer #6 · answered by Antoni 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm another Metz fan...
2008-01-01 09:48:52 · answer #7 · answered by The Violator! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋