External Flash with Fast Recharge

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Wayne R. - 30 Nov 2008 01:14 GMT

I recently shot a friend with her kids; got a lot of great shots with
a Canon S3 IS. It was the first time I used CHDK too. I used the
Sports setting cause the kids are squirmy so I went for a zillion
shots hoping to catch a few good ones. It worked...

Except that most of them are really noisy.

I have to recheck my setup, maybe my ISO wasn't where it should have
been. But anyway, my thoughts are telling me I should have used a lot
of fill flash, would've changed things a lot, but that camera can't
recharge the flash as fast as the thing can take shots in Sports mode.

Thanks to a lot of help here in this group, I have a Pentax K100D
Super - and I'd like to ask for suggestions regarding a flash unit
that can recharge really quickly that's appropriate for this camera.

Any thing else I should consider?

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dadiOH - 30 Nov 2008 12:06 GMT

> Thanks to a lot of help here in this group, I have a Pentax K100D
> Super - and I'd like to ask for suggestions regarding a flash unit
> that can recharge really quickly that's appropriate for this camera.

I have no idea if they are still made but if you can find a flash that uses
a high voltage battery you will remove the need to bump low voltage battery
power to high voltage.

An accessory battery pack such as the Quantum won't do it as they simply use
larger cells - but the same voltage - in order to gain more flashes from a
given set of batteries.

Many years ago I made up a battery pack using a standard, 510v photo battery
for a unit that used "D" cells. I don't recall the recharge rate with the
"D" cells - probably in the 6-10 second area - but with the 510v battery it
was virtually instantaneous.

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Joel - 30 Nov 2008 19:46 GMT

> > Thanks to a lot of help here in this group, I have a Pentax K100D
> > Super - and I'd like to ask for suggestions regarding a flash unit
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> "D" cells - probably in the 6-10 second area - but with the 510v battery it
> was virtually instantaneous.

I am not a Flash experted but I don't think the high voltage-trigger has
anything to do with the battery, but how the flash is made of. And if I am
not way off then it may have some thing to to with the capacitor which is
the electronic component which holds the charge.

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