Hi gang:
Although I rarely use flash, some days ago I took some photos with my AF
360 FGZ flash on the MX, without any problems. Yesterday I received my
second MX, a beautiful black one I bought this week (I bought the first,
a silver one, new in 1981, it was my first "serious" camera).
After I checked the most usual functions of the "new" MX and found that
everything seemed to go well, I have tried to fire a flash mounted on
the hot shoe, and it works erratically, it has fired only two or three
times out of twenty or more tries. The puzzling thing is that I have
tried the "old" MX, whose hotshoe worked fine a few days ago, and now it
doesn't want to fire the flash, in solidarity with her new black sister.
I must add that I have tried two flashes, the Pentax AF 360FGZ and a
Vivitar 285, and both of them don't work on the MXs, but I have just
checked them on my MZ-5 and MZ-S and they worked without a glitch.
Any ideas?
Carlos
