jim wrote: > On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:56:11 -0500, Adam Maas wrote: > > >>mike wilson wrote: >> >>>I will eat Cotty's hat if any of the FGZ flashes do analogue TTL. >>> > > >>Start eating, the FGZ's do all three types along with Auto thyristor >>flash and manual, unlike the AF500 which only does digital and manual. > > > > Do hope it is very tasty:) > > I have a 360FGZ flash and it's manual on page 14 only lists 2 types of TTL. > The P-TTL and TTL. > it lists LX , Super A 645N and 67II usable with TTL (amongst others). > I would say that with the ME Super, MG, MV that the flash would be able to > set the shutter speed. > > Funny thing is tho the SF7 is listed on page 14 as not being able to do TTL > or to use the AF spot beam > The SF7 must be sent back to pentax to be modifyed to use both. The 540FGZ > manual only lists the SF7 as not being able to do TTL, nothing about a > modifcation. > who would bother?????
What the manuals say and what the flashes do may be two entirely different things. According to the 540 manual, the LX can do trailing sync flash. I'm really quite interested in this as the newer flashes are really quite capable pieces of kit. My belief that there are two types of digital interface goes back to the AF500FTZ, which specifically states in the manual that it will only work in TTL with autofocus cameras and not all of those. This is backed up by Boz's site, if you look at how the flash systems are divided up there. If the digital interface only uses the digital pin to deal with bells and whistles such as trailing sync but has the same basic TTL function, that's a different dead cormorant. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
