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This item was my second item after the first one was dropped to hard surface and damaged til NOT even turn on.. As you understand, you have a chance to choose other brand and/or other model...But I am staying with this brand and model for this kind of hotshoe...Because the product is powerful in this class and result was perfect, Only the thing you must know and learn from it::::The setting that item available...Since you know everything about those setting, Then result=SUPER Perfect..
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A half-stop more powerful and larger than the SB-800. Mfrd in Germany, build quality and materials are excellent. Metz strobes have always produced very white, high quality light & these are no exception. I suspect UV is very well filtered. I also have two 58 AF-1 units, four 50-1 and one 48-1. In my testing, Metz strobes are compatible with Nikon's CLS system as both Master and Slave: The 48 & 50 as Slave and the 58s as Master & Slave. HSS works as it should. Both the 50 and 58 have an optical slave like the SB-800. The 50 and 58-2 have metal feet while the older 48 and 58-1 are plastic. All use the decades-old screw down hot shoe lock which isn't as fast as the lever lock used by the Nikon brand units but is equally secure, imo. When one of my 58-1s fell off a lightstand (my fault) I replaced the plastic foot myself; the part is available from a USA-based Ebay seller. I think you'd have trouble obtaining parts for Nikon, at least in the US. There was no other damage and it functions fine. I dropped my other 58-1 another time and it stopped flashing. Cost about $125 USD including shipping to have the flash tube replaced at the US service center, turn-around was about 12 working days and its worked fine since. I suspect a Nikon repair would have been far more costly. The user interface of Metz strobes is slightly more straight forward than Nikon's, imo. However, once learned, both present about the same degree of ease/difficulty in navigation. I like the updateable-via-USB firmware of the Metz units although the last update for the 48-50 and 58-1 was in 2011 IIRC. However, the firmware did mature nicely. I consider Metz strobes excellent value for money and will purchase more, especially when I recently (10/2014) paid $235 for a used but mint SB-800 (bought for comparison). With careful bidding I can win a NIB 58-x on ebay for under $175 USD delivered. Ditto the 48-50: SB-600's sell used for $175 or so and I've averaged $120 for mint to NIB 48-50's on ebay.Read full review
The Metz is a versatile flash, cheaper than the Nikon 600 and more powerful. Being able to manually adjust the zoom to 105 when using the bounce gives better performance. It also acts as a master or slave which the 600 doesn't With my D7100 I can adjust the onboard flash to commander with a low output and use the metz as the main off camera The extra under flash can be adjusted down to 1/4 power so you can get a soft fill from the bounce Great Value
With the rechargeable battery design and the number of flashes per battery charge it is perfect for family gatherings and on camera flash.
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Great product, used but mint condition except the missing USB cap.
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great flash simple to use
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