Hope you are right Paul. Cant believe they would do something like this - there is no justifiable reason for it, unless you were selling a camera without RTF.
The use of RTF other than as a controller could arguably not belong on a higher end model like this, so if they were going to nobble it, they would be better to remove it altogether and make the camera significantly smaller IMO... Fingers crossed! Rob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist Sent: 15 September 2006 12:00 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: No wireless with RTF in K10D :-( You can use the 360 as a slave. I also suspect that this information might be wrong. It doesn't make much sense. I wouldn't get my shorts in a knot over it quite yet. On Sep 15, 2006, at 5:53 AM, Rob Brigham wrote: > To me, this is far more serious than losing use of the aperture ring. > Almost all of my indoor flash photography is done with the wireless > 360 bounced and the RTF providing a little fill to avoid shadow cast. > This > means I can bounce the 360 off the most appropriate surface because I > can point it in any direction (I hand hold it), and I don't have to > mess > around if I change the orientation of the camera etc. I usually only > mount the 360 on the shoe when I need more range from it. > > I am not gonna use 2 flashes because the whole thing just gets too > cumbersome then, and people will think I am even more mad than at > present...! > > Lack of CF support annoyed me a little, but I could see the sense in > it. > > Lack of AA support seriously annoys me, but if that is the price for > the > other features then I guess I have to live with it. > > I am not sure I can accept the flash limitation though - this is a > serious issue for me, and a really stupid move on Pentaxes part. One > of the best loved features on their cameras of late, and one which > helped enormously to overcome the hassle of having to go P-TTL. > > NOT HAPPY!!! > > Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Sylwester Pietrzyk > Sent: 15 September 2006 08:28 > To: [email protected] List > Subject: No wireless with RTF in K10D :-( > > > I just have read FAQ on japanese K10D page using babelfish and: > "Q: The Strobo it can photograph with the wireless? > A: Wireless photographing is possible by the fact that 2 AF540FGZ or > AF360FGZ are used. With the built-in Strobo wireless speed light > photography is not possible." Why? It was quite useful. Now you have > to have two dedicated flashes to have wireless... If they could > implement this functionality in low end analog bodies like MZ-6 or > *ist and in *istD, why they couldn't in their newest flagship??? For > me it's a one of the biggest ommisions in otherwise excellent camera. > > Cheers, > Sylwek > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
