On Nov 14, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: >> What is the "control" wireless mode for? >> >> I've been playing around with it, and it seems that the flash >> attached >> to the camera - the AF540FGZ - fires (and triggers the remote slave >> flash) in either "control" or "master" mode. >> >> I'm a little puzzled as to what the "control" mode is for and the >> user >> manual isn't much help. Can someone please explain it to me like I'm >> five years old? >> > > Nevermind.... > > From what I've read online (duh, should have looked harder first), a > flash in "control" mode should "not contribute significantly to the > exposure" so it's doing what I thought it should be doing - primarily > just telling the remote flash what to do. > > Although why that final full flash from the "controller" needs to go > off at all, I have no idea. Seems like it could do the pre-flashing > and then just shut up!
I don't have one to experiment with, but that's probably what tells the slave flash exactly when to fire. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
