> > From: Kostas Kavoussanakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/12/05 Tue AM 11:06:20 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: FTZ flash assumptions. > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, John Whittingham wrote: > > > No idea, isn't it nmissing the connection fot the digital pin? > > Not great with electronics, but I am guessing that all a flash needs > so as to operate in self-quenching auto is something to tell it > "flash". That's the middle round contact and the ground on the side, > isn't it? > > Pentax flashes are actually program, rather than auto, in that they > also use the mode contact which tells the body to set the aperture. > Not sure if that will work with the digital cameras. > > http://kmp.bdimitrov.de/technology/hot-shoe/index.html
It's just the way he's written it. The above is an extra feature on flashes not having TTL. You need a camera set to Program (sic) mode for it to function. Auto flash works the standard way. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
