Oly Shooters:
While I am not terribly fond of using flash, I have a Vivitar 4600 with
zoom head and bounce flash adapter. It is reliable on my OM-1 and with my
OM-2S it does TTL flash fine.
Should I for any reason other than product loyalty consider acquiring
either a T-20 or T-32 flash?
The one thing I don't really care for about the 4600 (aside from having to
use it at all) is that it's a monster compared to my OM's. Nor is it
particularly light. When I approach people with my rig it often perplexes
and scares them. I like to shoot verticals and I acquired a Bachrach
bracket years ago. With Vivitar's version of a duosync cord you can mount
the flash dedicated module on the camera and the flash on the bracket and
then rotate 90 degrees the bracket arm with flash attached to take
verticals. Unfortunately I can't use the bounce flash adapter in that
configuration, but I can at least get decent verticals with direct flash
coming over the top of the camera. I would like to use bounce flash
shooting verticals. The Vivitar flash head rotates in about 15o increments,
so I guess I could play with the angles and practice bouncing off the
ceiling, but I haven't tried this as yet.
I am wondering if some combination of T-20 or T-32 and a bounce grip would
give me everything I want and do so somewhat more elegantly.
Thanks in advance.
Joel
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