ToCAD 018ST Hot-shoe clip-on flash

Sunpak is one of the world's largest manufacturers of electronic flash equipment. It has earned a reputation for advanced technical achievement and superior quality. Sunpak electronic flashes are produced for professionals, advanced amateurs, enthusiasts, and casual photographers. They are designed to work with today's auto focus cameras having dedicated flash capabilities. All Sunpak flash units offer advanced features, which provide the widest range of creative control.Sunpak 018ST is a digital camera flash enhancement kit. It enhances lighting capabilities of most digital cameras with built-in flash, hot-shoe or PC synchro contact. Featuring wireless slave mode and ultra-responsive slave for fast recycling and extended battery life, it can be used with conventional cameras at flash synchro speeds up to 1/250 second. It comes with a base stand with 1/4 x 20 tripod socket, a flexible mini tripod, a battery and a PC cord. more

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From: Amazon
Posted: Jun-07-2007

Maybe mine is defective, but these are useless

I purchased this falsh to serve specifically as a slave flash for fill-ins and effects. Unfortunately the light sensor that senses the main flash does not work. It fired MAYBE 2% of the time. The only way I could get this to fire consistently was to aim it directly at the camera's flash, which...

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Posted: Jan-25-2007

Skip this one and get the Sunpak 383 instead

I ordered this flash as a birthday present for my husband. He has a Panasonic FZ30 digital camera and it has a hot shoe for a flash. The 018ST worked with the FZ30, but it didn't offer anything over the built-in flash. The flash head does not swivel or rotate. Supposedly you could use the...

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Posted: Jul-22-2006

This flash does the job, if you use it right

You should use this flash when your built-in flash doesn't cut it, when the distance is too far. To use it up close will not do anything for you, and you really don't need to use it anyway. It's a great fill in flash, because of the slave, and great for extending the output to allow you to take...

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Posted: Apr-08-2006

Great job for the money

I disagree with the previous reviewer. Since this is not camera specific you have to play with the camera settings to get good results. My first shots were washed out but by setting my iso to a lower value than what the included chart recommends the results were excellent. I gave it 5 stars for...

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Posted: Mar-28-2006

Without failure, this makes every shot worse.

This flash does not communicate with your camera with the exception of accepting the command to fire. You have to set your camera to what you think the flash output will be and hope that it comes out alright. The built-in flash in the most low-end one-time use camera is better than this thing....

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