I recieved this flash as a gift. It is of very good quality manufacture. However it is not designed to communicate electronically with the camera, the camera only triggers the flash, the hotshoe of the flash has only the power contacts. The flash is connected to the minolta flash mount via a supplied adapter which looks like it is compatable with generic computerised speedlites.
The flash power is set manually, which is no bad thing. The rear panel shows the power level and mode selected via bright led lights. The flash seems to be quite happy to work with NIMH batteries and recharges quickly particularly at half power output or below.
Very happy with this gift and would reccomend it to anyone looking for a simple flash or a slave flash.