mike wilson wrote: > 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
two types of TTL interface > 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
