I don't have experience with the Godox.
I've been using the yongnuo trigger for my studio strobes and really
quite like them. I picked up one of their speedlights, I don't remember
which one, which had an intrinsic trigger. It worked great and was very
inexpensive. I picked up one or two more and in pretty short order, they
all crapped out. It might have been when I was using a metal shoe mount
to hold them on light stands. It turns out that there is a well known
weakness with them where they will fry a transistor (?), that is cheap
to replace, enough so that there is a hack on the web someplace on how
to mount that component in an external socket so that you can basically
replace it like a fuse.
I will note that the other aspect to the yongnuos that could be a
drawback is that they did not work with the pentax flash auto exposure.
I didn't really mind because I've learned that flash autoexposure has a
90% success rate at getting something that is arguably technically a
decent exposure but entirely not what I want.
On 2025-11-13 14:56, John Sessoms wrote:
I have ruined my Pentax strobes AF540FGZ & AF360FGZ and need to replace
them.
I'm looking at $500 for an AF540FGZ II from Amazon, and I'm wondering
about the Godox V1, Godox Ving V860 TTL, or Yongnuo YN-560 IV flashes?
I note that the Godox flashes use a Li-Ion battery (so no AA batteries
to forget to remove) ... and costs half the new Pentax flash.
Does anyone on list have experience with the Godox flashes for Pentax?
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