fairfield grands
This review is for the Godot V860II S flash, for Sony cameras. This flash has many attractive features, but unfortunately some of them did not work. For example, the flash is supposed to automatically adjust for changes in focal length when using a zoom lens. For that it has both an automatic mode (where the flash adjusts itself and displays that adjustment on the LED screen) and a manual mode, where you can enter the desired focal length yourself, using a settings dial on the back. Neither worked. I could never get the flash to go into the automatic mode (indicated by an "A" on the LED screen). It would immediately default to the manual adjustment mode when the flash was turned on and would not change. When I tried to adjust the focal length setting manually, it refused to adjust, staying stuck at 14mm. Perhaps a problem in the flash software? I dont know, but given this problem I never really got a chance to use it to see how it performed (or if other problems cropped up). A shame really as the flash is attractively priced for the features it offers and does come with a few useful accessories (e.g. a soft box diffuser). It also uses a proprietary battery pack, not the AA batteries my nikon flash uses. That seemed to work ok, but it limits flexibility -- if your battery unexpectedly dies and you do not have another, there are no alternatives. After trying a number of times to get it to work, I finally gave up, called Amazon, and returned it. Thank goodness for Amazons return policy!