Sunpak DS-20 5-Position Bounce-Tilt Shoe Mounted Flash with Wireless Auto Slave.

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• ASIN: B00009V3IZ
• Item model number: DS-20
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 28, 2006

Product Description

Product Description
Sunpak is one of the world's largest manufacturers of electronic flash equipment. Sunpak electronic flashes are designed to work with today's auto focus cameras having dedicated flash capabilities. All Sunpak flash units offer advanced features to provide the widest range of creative control, and are supported by a wide range of system accessories.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Little Flash, February 21, 2006

By	R. Casto "FCSI" (St. Augustine, FL. USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this flash primarilary for the auto-slave feature to use in conjunction with my digital camera. The flash is completely adjustable from the tilt to timing, allowing you to put the light where it's needed for the right shot. I would highly recommend this flash for the "every-day" photographer.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sunpak DS-20, March 9, 2008

By	Dominic Vozza - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an inexpensive little slave flash that actually works. I have a Canon A570 and, like most small digicams, it has a fairly weak builtin flash. It couldn't illuminate properly more than 10 feet away and I also didn't like the glare on faces from below 7 or 8 feet. This is typical with direct builtin flash. When using this flash, I generally turn off the camera redeye preflash and set the camera to the manual Aperture setting with the aperture set to f4.5. I also set the flash control on the camera to the 2/3 setting. I set the Sunpak to slave mode. So, when the camera flash fires, the Sunpak also fires and I get much better photos, especially when I bounce the flash off a white ceiling. Much more natural and even lighting effect with a nice modelling effect on faces. One thing about this flash is that it comes with a stand, but not a bracket to use next to the camera. I had to buy that separately as using a the stand is not always convenient.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent low cost bounce flash, February 4, 2008

By	nagappa (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews

I use this flash with my Panasonic DMC-FZ50 10.1MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Black).

It worked in "Auto" mode right off the bat with my camera. But I had to calibrate the fstop setting. My camera defaults to fstop of 4.0 automatically, but it can be manually changed. With the fstop correctly set, the thyristor on the flash takes over and does a decent job of getting the right amount of light on the target, both in direct or bounce mode.

You can also use it with the full power ("On") position, in which case you would need to adjust the fstop on your camera based on the ISO/fstop/distance table at the back of the camera.

Given the small size, the flash is actually quite powerful and can produces reasonable light for up to 25 feet at ISO100. Bounce mode works well, giving more natural, shadow free photos. I have taken some really nice portraits in bounce mode.

This is a great improvement over my camera's built-in flash. I recommend it if you want a low cost external flash option.