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Vivitar 285HV Auto Professional Flash | 
| Brand: Vivitar
Category: Photography
List Price: $179.99
Buy New: $86.95
as of 9/8/2010 16:42 WIT details
You Save: $93.04 (52%)
New (22) Used (5) from $69.95
Seller: 47th Street Photo
Rating:  74 reviews
Sales Rank: 240
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7 x 3.7 x 2.8
Warranty: 2 years warranty
MPN: 285HV
Model: 285HV
UPC: 019643339651
EAN: 0019643339651
ASIN: B00004TVSP
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Features:
| • | Vertical bounce flash | | • | Auto Thyristor circuitry | | • | Sufficient-light indicator | | • | Illuminated calculator dial | | • | Flash range up to 70 feet |
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Product Description
Vivitar Flash w/Zoom Thyrister FeaturesAutomatic electronic flash with zoom thyristor. - Guide number: 36 DIN
- Zoom flash head
- Auto bounce control
- Thyristor battery saving circuit
- 4 auto f / stops
- Built-in vari-power control
- Sufficient light indicator
- Lighted calculator dial
- Complete accessory system available
Amazon.com Product Description
The built-in variable power of the Vivitar 285HV auto professional flash provides you with fill flash and the ability to shoot properly exposed rapid-sequence pictures. This vertical bounce flash gives your photographs soft, professional lighting. The four f-stops give you control over the flash distance range and the depth of field, while the auto Thyristor circuitry allows for a faster recycling time as well as more flashes per set of batteries.
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 Cost Effective Monster Flash September 5, 2010
Jacksen
This is a very PowerFul Flash Unit. Hook it with a Wireless Trigger and Receiver and you are set to take awesome Photographs.
I bought 4 of these and just spent $300. Best Bang for the Least Buck.
Look at the price..can't go wrong September 2, 2010
Just Buy it
I have been using my Vivitar (same one) now for about 2 years, and it is still going strong. I love this flash. I have three now and honestly, I see no reason to get another flash. Once you get the hang of doing everything manual with the dial, it's great. It not only helps you learn alot about flash (because it's manual) it's just a great, powerful, and talk about affordable flash. I recommend this flash to everyone I know looking to get an affordable but great and powerful unit.
My only dislike about this flash. Battery Life. I always use it off camera and with only using 4 double A batteries..start packing alot of em if your going on a heavy shoot. By the end of the day I am going to change my batteries at least twice so I can keep consistency in the power. Once your batteries start getting weak, the flash naturally slows down.
Other than that..look at the price..you are a fool if you don't want to at least give it a shot.
DO IT!
Inexpensive-- not cheap! August 17, 2010
Duncan C. Spaulding (New Hampshire)
I'm going to briefly describe my level of photography before I dive into this review to put this into context (if you don't care about context just skip to the next paragraph). I've been into photography for two years. During that time I've been "bitten by the shutterbug" as they say, and I've devoted myself to photography: pouring over dozens of books, thousands of articles, and countless images learning the art. I'm relatively new to strobist photography; I got an SB900 for Christmas and since then I've fallen in love with off-camera flash. This Vivitar 285 HV is my second flash unit. The camera I primarily use is a Nikon D300.
REVIEW:
It's clear this flash is from a different era (The instruction manual is Copyright 1985) . At one point in the instruction manual it says something the long the lines of "try shooting a roll of film to experiment with this feature." As such, there is no iTTL/eTTL. *GASP* You'll actually have to decide the proper exposure for yourself. As my technique improves and I gain more experience with off-camera flash, I noticed that I relied less and less on the SB900's TTL capabilities. I'd shoot manual at the camera and manual on the flash.
As I said before, this flash is old, but it feels like a workhorse in your hands. With a solid build and sturdy mounts I've read reviews of people who have been using a Vivitar 285 HV for 15+ years and it keeps slugging away.
The power of this cheap flash is incredibly powerful. I've done an experiment comparing the flash output of the SB900 to the Vivitar 285HV, and I must say I'm quite impressed (please see this link for the test: [...] )
It's pretty clear that with the extra $300 you'd drop for an SB900 you're paying for the optical slave, and the fancy iTTL electronics. Buy this flash.
Amazing!!! August 4, 2010
Renas
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Caution high trigger voltage... NO!!!! i measured and it's < 5 V. Vivitar 285HV Auto Professional Flash is exactly what I wanted for my old canon.
 Caution high trigger voltage! CHECK YOUR CAMERA SPEC. July 10, 2010
Lotus-Seven
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Disappointed that this can't be used safely with my Canon 50D. Have to return it for a safe one.
Before putting a 285HV on your camera, please check with the camera manufacturer first. The 285 HV open circuit trigger voltage measures as much as 12 V. and many cameras are not rated for this voltage. Canon USA claims that Canon SLRs should not be used with triggers above 6V. and Olympus says don't exceed 10 V. Nikon says 12V. is the maximum safe trigger voltage. Cameras that meet the ISO 10330 spec. are supposed to be safe up to 24V.
Most modern cameras use solid state flash circuits (not mechanical contacts as old cameras did), so the use of even a slight overvoltage can instantly do serious damage. Building a "universal" electronic flash with a 12V. trigger voltage for today's cameras is really not very smart engineering when most well engineered units trigger using 3 or 4 Volts maximum.
It's interesting that Vivatar uses a "HV" designation for this flash unit. The old (film era) "plain" Vivitar 285 and Vivitar 283 flashes had a trigger voltage of over 250 Volts, but the "HV" version is 12V, which, unfortunately is still too HV for many cameras.
If you do a web search for "Electronic flash trigger voltage", you will find tons of info on this subject.
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