... Of course, I don't actually know anything about light metering, but I get lots of pretty flashes all going off at once around the room, so that's okay. At least now I am not restricted to only being able to move my camera 1 metre away from my flash because of a synch cable - handy when your main subject is an increasingly mobile toddler - although I may simply end up taking high-key and low-key images for the rest of my natural photographic life... Or at least until I read up on how to meter a shoot.
One thing I will have to get used to is a slow recycle time - on half power they are ready to go again more-or-less straight away, but on full power they take about 6 secs. This it something I will have to be aware of as I tend to shoot very quickly and frequently. I currently have an Olympus FL-50; a Sigma (which I used to use with my Canon EOS 1000FN about 10 years ago - and seems to turn itself off if unused for a period of time) and my latest investment: 2 x Speedlite YN460s. The remote transmitter and receivers are the iShoot PT-04s, which are the nice cheap, experimental beginner's option.
There are a plethora of accessories to get now; stands; heads; brollies; flex mounts; softboxes; snoots; barndoors; honeycombs; beauty dishes; globe diffusers; reflectors - but they'll all have to wait until my car is fixed...
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