Hi Bruce, TTL works on my *istDS to my satisfaction, by now, with those old flashes I have. I have a flash meter and know how to use it, but I think this would not be wedding proof, e.g. Setting a flash to auto is OK too, the K100D I owned for a short ime even transmitted the f-stop to my Metz 40MZ-2. But then, with auto flash and preset f-stop, my KX does the job as well - or my RB67, with 1/400 sync time ;-)
So why drop TTL for those who own old flashes, if it is apparently possible to implement both, at a not so high expense, I guess. I always believe there is a conspiracy, if things are not going the way I want... Pancho Bruce Dayton schrieb: > Hello Pancho, > > My understanding of the move by all camera manufacturers away from TTL > is that the reflectivity of the sensor/filter in front of it, made it > problematic at best to read from that surface. Every manufacturer has > found it necessary to pre-flash and read to set proper exposure rather > than meter on the surface during exposure. If my *istD was any > indicator, the Old TTL system was not too good. I don't think there > was any major conspiracy to force us to buy new flashes. > > Nikon has been even worse going from TTL to D-TTL to I-TTL. So > incomparability is even a bigger problem - especially if you had a > flash for the middle version. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

