Hello all I confess to having been lurking here for some time but I've finally got around to subscribing.
I notice there are quite a number of list members from Oz and I'm another one - and before you ask, yes, I do have Vegemite on toast for breakfast - it's one of life's little pleasures...... About my photography - I haven't gone digital yet (apart from a point and shoot 'FinePix') and although lusting ater an *istD I don't expect to be digitally enabled for some time unless prices unexpectedly plummet! Currently I'm mainly using an MZ5 and a Z20 but I'm a bit of a collector so I have a number of other camera bodies to choose from including several screw mounts. I enjoy landscape and wildflower photography and I'm hoping to get a bit of inspiration from the PAW entries of list members. Anyway enoungh about me, Markus Maurer asked.... "is there a risk of overloading the connectors if I use both flash connectors on a Pentax ME Super at the same time, for ex. an Pentax AF280T on the hot shoe and some NonPentaxFlash on the side connector ? And, how is it with a Pentax SFX/SF1/SF7, can I also use both connectors at the same time? Can I combine any brand of flash and beside the limited length of the cable connection, is there a difference in quality or else to a master/slave connection with a special slave adapter for the second flash?" I have some experience with this sort of set up as I use a dual flash arrangement for wildflower 'macro' photography. I've been using dual flash on my Super A for many years with an AF280T attached to the hotshoe (via a 4P sync cord B and hot shoe adapter F) and an AF200S connected to the PC socket via a generic hot shoe cable. Before I got the 200S I was using a generic brand flash connected to the PC socket. All I can say is that the setup has never caused any problems. I've also used the same arrangement occasionally with an ME Super and SFXn - in the latter case both flashes are attached via a hot shoe adapter as there's no PC socket. Again, no problems have been experienced. Cheers Brian Walters
