alternate to sunpak 383's

I am setting up a small studio in the converted attic in my house.

I have read numerous post on here and elsewhere about the 383's however they seem like gold dust to try and track down especially in the UK. I have some cheap ebay flash trigger and receivers. light stands and umbrellas.

since these are hard to find even on ebay that i don't have to pay silly postage fees from the US. Is there any alternatives that i should be looking for. Sorry if this has been asked before!

TIA

33L

they should not be that hard to find, have you tried Amazon.com ? last time I looked there were plenty of people selling there.

I had a look but for some reason they wont ship to the flashes to the UK and Amazon.co.uk doesnt stock them. It seems that the warranty is limited to the US or something like that!

I think the 383 will not meet the European RoHS requirement.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.or​g …dous_Substances​_Directive

Enjoy! Lon

Vivitar 285HV?

Canon 550/540?

Nikon SB?

FlashZebra wrote in post #5540230
I think the 383 will not meet the European RoHS requirement.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.or​g …dous_Substances​_Directive

Enjoy! Lon

That makes sense and why i cant get them here! oh well - need to still find something availabel here to use!

scot079 wrote in post #5540252
Vivitar 285HV?

Canon 550/540?

Nikon SB?

Are these the vivitars without the manual setting of 1/8 power? If so i would like there to be that option.

The 550's are out of my price range i can get the sigma 530 supers brand new for that money. The 540's dont seem to be coming in cheap again.

Not familiar with nikon flashes! can you let me know what models are decent money and fully manual.

33L wrote in post #5542887
Not familiar with nikon flashes! can you let me know what models are decent money and fully manual.

The Nikon SB-24, SB-25, SB-26, SB-28, SB-28DX, and SB-80DX are all nice units for off camera manual flash.

The features are a bit different from model to model, but all are good flash units if you can find a good quality used unit.

Enjoy! Lon

Buy them new from B&H. They ship to anywhere.

ROHS is such a load of bullcrap. Try hand soldering surface mount stuff with lead free

That said, I found my 383 online in hte UK

Psychobiker wrote in post #5546527
ROHS is such a load of bullcrap. Try hand soldering surface mount stuff with lead free

That said, I found my 383 online in hte UK

Please do share where?

FlashZebra wrote in post #5546125
The Nikon SB-24, SB-25, SB-26, SB-28, SB-28DX, and SB-80DX are all nice units for off camera manual flash.

The features are a bit different from model to model, but all are good flash units if you can find a good quality used unit.

Enjoy! Lon

Hey Lon, I could be wrong, and if I am please correct me, but isn't the SB-25 manual but it doesn't have a optical slave as an option? (if it does I passed up a good deal on 2 of them.. )

SB-26 is the one with the built in slave. AFAIK the SB-25 doesn't have it. Not sure about the newer models. The SB-24 doesn't have it (used to own one when I shot Nikon )

Strayz wrote in post #5556546
Hey Lon, I could be wrong, and if I am please correct me, but isn't the SB-25 manual but it doesn't have a optical slave as an option? (if it does I passed up a good deal on 2 of them.. )

As René indicates, the SB-26 has a built in optical slave, as does the SB-80DX.

Enjoy! Lon

im not worried about being able to us as optical slaves. i have
2 wireless receivers and a trigger so just manual adjustment of power poutput is needed.

tim wrote in post #5546307
Buy them new from B&H. They ship to anywhere.

That's what I just did. Best solution, IMO.