I know that many of you have been toying with the wireless functinality of the K10D since the last firmware update. I was excited about it because I wanted to see if it would be a low cost alternative for doing product shots without the need for me to purchase monolights.
So, I purchased a second AF-540FGZ and two of the TR power pack III's. I also picked up a couple of flash shoe brackets for my light stands. I set up my seamless backdrop and tested the setup last night. In short, it worked very, very well. I had talked to Paul S. about the monolights he used to create the shot he posted of the broshure. He was able to achieve f11 @ ISO 100 with his setup. That seemed like a really good target, since I'm hoping to get similar results. Without much effort, I too was able to get f11 @ ISO 100. Both flashes were set to +1 EV and a flash output of 1/1. However, I probably could have had both flashes set to 0EV and moved the stands closer to the table or used more reflective umbrellas and gotten the same intensity. I like this setup because it has some distinct advantages over monolights. Namely: 1. the setup is less expensive than most monolight packages 2. it is more portable and there's less hassle with cords 3. there's no add'l transmitter/receivers needed 4. lightweight, easy to reposition and transport I put up two shots of the setup and six shots I made for the tests. All were shot with the K10D in wireless flash mode with the on board flash set to "control." Flash WB was selected. All were shot at 1/180, f11, ISO 100. The two lenses used were the A*85mm f1.4 and the A50mm f1.4. All of the shots got some slight level tweaking in CS2 plus I added some blue because my smaller background paper is a shade darker than my normal arctic white. http://www.primelensphoto.com/wireless/indexK10D Cheers, Brendan ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
