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? -- Vivere in aeternum aut mori conatur -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com

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? > > -- > Vivere in aeternum aut mori conatur -- Larry Colen LRC@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc

On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 05:56:17PM -0500, 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? No, but I do have a Pentax flash (which I'm pretty sure is a 540FGZ) that I'm no longer using - if you're interested in that, I'll try and find it.