>Their engineers must have been very friendly... No. They just slept @ a Holiday Inn Express!
Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Womer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: K10D flash question > Pentax and Minolta shared a few other ideas, such as > power zoom lenses and pop-up flashes. Their engineers > must have been very friendly... > > Rick > > --- Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Pentax got the idea from Minolta, who introduced >> their wireless flash >> system, complete with moronic channel selection, in >> 1992. >> >> Given the peculiarities of the P-TTL wireless >> system, I halfway >> suspect it might be a licensed version of Minolta's >> ADI metered TTL >> system. The two work (And don't work) in very >> similar ways. >> >> -Adam >> >> On 1/10/08, Peter Loveday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> Does the K10D have the wireless flash >> capability ... >> > > Yes with firmware updates and with 2 >> limitations: >> > >> > > * You can only chose channel nr 1 >> > >> > Well, you *can* choose other channels on the K10D, >> the same way as with the >> > *istD. >> > >> > Having said that, setting it is about the most >> convoluted and unintuitive >> > way imaginable: >> > >> > The camera picks up the wireless channel of a >> slave set to remote when its >> > mounted on the hot-shoe. So put the flash on the >> camera, set your flash to >> > Channel X and Slave mode, then enable wireless >> mode on the camera. It will >> > show Ch X (where it usually shows Ch 1), and will >> work just fine on that >> > channel. You then take the slave flash off the >> hotshoe and put it where you >> > actually want it... >> > >> > Whoever thought up this at Pentax should be >> shot.... (what would be wrong >> > with just using a thumbwheel to change channel >> while its showing "Ch 1" >> > after turning on wireless mode...) >> > >> > > * No HSS in wireless mode >> > >> > Indeed. >> > >> > Love, Light and Peace, >> > - Peter Loveday >> > >> > -- >> > 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. >> > >> >> >> -- >> M. Adam Maas >> http://www.mawz.ca >> Explorations of the City Around Us. >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > > -- > 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. -- 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.
