I am about to move so I have to be careful with money at the moment so I will see what quotes Swansea Camera Centre give me and ring SRS once I know the quotes from my local shop. If SRS have the Sigma unit I would be a very happy man!

I have to say guys you have all been really helpful and I do appreciate all the comments (inc. about my pic :wink

I do have a Sigma flash and I have to say I am really impressed by it's performance so if the Sigma option becomes available that would be my preferred choice. If the Sigma unit is not an option then my next choice will probably be the Metz unit as my choice.

I have just actually sent an email query off to the contact email on the ray flash website so at least I know their answer in advance.

Womble, I know it's not quite me but I didn't want to scare you all with my ugly mug

Don, I thought the ray flash adapters were only for Nikon and Canon (it was the last time I looked). I might be wrong there and never seen any supplier for a Pentax version yet. I will have to do more research on the Ray adapters incase there is a pentax one now.

Hi Josh,

Sounds good. I am hoping others will be interested. Maybe we should organise a meeting in March possibly.

I am not sure yet, maybe a meeting every two or three months seeing if people want to do group shoots possibly.

Free delivery does sound good. I might be able to wait for the Sigma UK to release the pentax version.

Are there any Pentax users in South Wales that would like to meetings/group shoots?

Thanks Jonathon, I'll ask for a quote on the Sigma EM140 DG Macro unit as well (my only concern is that on the Sigma Imaging site it's showing it's only compatible with Sigma, Canon and Nikon bodies). I have been advised the Metz unit is built very well and my Sigma EG 500 DG Plus does work fully with the K20D despite being bought before the K20D release.

My local shop don't usually carry stock of any ringflash units at all so it will be ordered in especially for me.

I do some macro work and model/portraiture shots (on location and in a studio) using a K10D or K20D body at the moment. I also use off camera flash using a AF-360 Pentax flash gun and Sigma 500 DG Plus flash gun at the moment using a wired system (both on manual mode). I am looking to use a ring flash instead of one of the flash guns beng mounted on my camera as well as to use the ring flash on locations on P-TTL.

The main two options as Sigma don't have a P-TTL for the Pentax DSLR range is the Metz 15 MS-1 Digital and the Pentax AF160FC. I am awaiting the quotes on both devices from my local supplier at the moment. Both of these look a very similar specification and if anyone has any feedback using either of these ringflashes I would appreciate any pointers particularly from those using the K10D and K20D bodies.

Data as follows:

Camera: Pentax DL
Lens: SMC-DA 18-55mm (35mm)
ISO: 200
Aperature: f22
Speed: 1/30

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