AlunFoto wrote: > Toralf, > > You can determine the type of communication by looking at the number > of pins on the hotshoe. If there are 3 small pins in addition to the > X-terminal, it's a digital communication flash. 2 small pins means the > flash speaks analog TTL, with the belonging voltages. > > [ ... ] > > Boz Dimitrov has a tabular description of the analog TTL flashes here: > http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/flashes/TTL/index.html > Yes. Thanks.
Unfortunately, I'm don't have the opportunity to inspect the actual Vivitar unit, and I can't find a picture of it's hot shoe. But actually, I just realised I've been thinking about this wrong all along. According to the above info, the ME Super is actually too old to support any kind of automation, besides auto-selection of flash sync speed and "flash ready" display. I've also assumed this in the past, and set my other flash to "auto" rather than TTL, but I forgot all about that earlier (I don't do a lot of flash photography, as you can probably tell.) So unless I want to use only my AF bodies for macro shots, I suppose what I should look for is a unit that has a non-TTL auto mode. Perhaps this is also the best way to get some compatibility with a possible future DSLR. Except, of course, the full-frame MZ-5D will obviously also fully support normal TTL automation ;-) - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
