> > From: Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/03/02 Fri AM 10:12:21 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: older flashes with K10, Pentax's response > > Hi! > > mike wilson wrote: > > A pity that it is utter twaddle. My assumtion from those statements > > is that the older flashes will not do the "automatically set shutter > > speed and give 'ready' indication in the viewfinder". What Pentax > > calls "dedication". If the body will trigger the flash in manual > > mode, then auto must work. It requires the same trigger and makes > > its own decision as to when to quench. > > Well, that's not exactly right, what you say Mike. I have AF220T and it > gives "ready" indication in the viewfinder. Also I cannot set a shutter > speed to faster than X-sync even in manual mode. So dedication is preserved. > > However since the flash has no modes except TTL, I set my camera to > manual mode and fire it away. It always fires at full power and I have > to set aperture *manually* to get proper exposure. Otherwise, it works, > whatever "works" may mean in this context. > > Boris (who may have been confused by the language again)
Well, I wasn't being totally detailed. 'Older flashes with "auto" capability' would have been a better description. The totally TTL flashes have always been a law unto themselves. I was only trying to rephrase what the writer meant, as what they wrote does not make entire sense to me. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
