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13 December 2018
Good but severely limited in usefulness
It is well made but to my surprise lacks the ability to work with the camera to provide automatic exposure - called as i now know - as TTL mode. Hence you have to manually figure out what intensity of flash to set it at for each picture, which is not very practical. If used at full strength in most situations the result is almost total white-out. So it is really not usable as an on-camera flash. I will keep it to use as an off-camera 2nd slave flash as it does have the ability to sync to the flash from an on-camera flash unit. Using 2 flashes makes possible good modelling lighting of the subject. So it is a disappointment - partly because I didn't at the time understand the need for a TTL mode and partly because the info offered did not give enough detail.
20 December 2018
Light & compact but not steady enough for DSLR
It is firm enough as you'd expect from such a light and very low cost unit but has proved rather marginal with a not very heavy Nikon D2400 DSLR esp when a flash is attached. It tends to shake easily. Although light and compact for traveling I'm not sure it is firm enough to be much use. The 4-section legs are very skinny in the last section. I should have gone for a heavier model I think.
20 February 2020
A superb series presenting Simenon's stories and Maigret's character convincingly.
As a long time fan of Georges Simenon's books, I was impressed by the recent Maigret productions featuring the usually comedian actor Roan Atkinson, but only four stories. So I searched for other Maigret movies, expecting to find some French productions which I would be equally happy with as my French is fluent. I found no French ones but found this set of BBC productions with Michael Gambon, and I was delighted to find them truly superb, He captures the essence of the Maigret character and although in English, the settings in Paris are very convincingly staged. I gather from the credits that much of the period locations were actually filmed in Budapest, but it is very convincing even for me who knows the streets of Montmartre very well. These are truly superb productions in every way and highly recommendable and do full justice to Simenon's story genius.