The tall bracket with it's long lever arm exerts a lot of forward
twisting torque on the body/lens combo if the camera is tipped even
slightly downward. Adding 4 AA NiMH batteries at the end of the lever
just makes you a lot more tired at the end of a 4-6 hour shooting stint.
You just can't hold that whole rig perfectly upright all night long.
The T-32 is pretty squat to begin with so minimizes the length of the
lever. And the ability to leave the AAs out when using a high voltage
supply adds even more value. Unfortunately, the T-32 is a loser when it
comes to manual power control.
Chuck Norcutt
John Hudson wrote:
> Chuck .... I am trying without much success to place the second sentence in
> context with the first and third sentence. How does a tall bracket exert any
> leverage at all and how is any leverage relevant to not having any AA
> batteries in the flash gun ?
>
> I'm confused :-)
>
> jh
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 4:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Vivitar 285HV Zoom Thyristor flash
>
>
>> One nice advantage of the T-32 is that it does not need AA batteries
>> when running from an external high voltage power supply. If you put the
>> flash on a tall bracket (like a Stroboframe) the bracket exerts lots of
>> leverage. Having or not having batteries in the flash is very
>> noticeable after schlepping camera, bracket and flash around all night.
>>
>> Dr. Flash
>>
>> Frank van Lindert wrote:
>>> The manual
>>> http://www.cameramanuals.org/flashes_meters/vivitar_285hv.pdf
>>> says YES.
>>>
>>> Frank van Lindert
>>> Utrecht NL.
>>>
>>> Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:06:22 -0400, John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> When using a Viv 285HV flash with the dedicated SB-4 power supply unit
>>>> should the flash gun be loaded with 4 AA batteries at the same time ?
>>>>
>>>> jh
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