I had been waiting for Pentax to come out with a decent digital SLR for years. I finally gave up about seven years ago and switched the focus of my attentions to video, something I had been involved in since the 1980's. A couple of years ago I bought a Canon digital camera with 3-something megapixel resolution as an inexpensive way to get some quality stills to work with in my video projects. As projects evolved the need to improve equipment evolved, so I bought a Fuji s-9000, mainly because it was built to allow use of all of my really old and still very functional flash guns. All fine and great, but I rarely shot over 5 meg resolution, and was really wanting to use some of my old Pentax lenses I so painfully collected over the years. Last week I purchased a used ist*D, and have been doing my homework.
Here is the question I can't quite get answered because I have read a huge amount of warnings regarding using older, high voltage flash units with digital cameras: Will my Pentax Af-400T work with the ist*D and NOT damage the camera's circuitry? Can I safely use my Vivitar 285, my Sunpak 411, or my Sunpak 333 on the ist*D? I've seen a few oblique references on online that suggest the ist*D will manage older flashes, but nothing absolute. Any comments are welcome. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
