> A whole minute of recycle time is useless. You need half a > second for any event incorporating people. And that's max. > Immediate recycle is nearly essential. The minute or two recycle time is only when the flash completely depletes its capacitors. This happens if I put the flash on manual mode or if I take a photo of the sky at midnight. When using it for fill flash in sunlight or for regular shooting indoors the capacitor does not get depleted unless I shoot fire 3 or 4 shots in continuous mode. These times are with a battery pack. Greg