Bill, You're pretty good with mechanical stuff ! ! ! Paul, See Bill's picture. Look at the camera and flash from the FRONT. There is an obvious 1.5 mm black pin that rides on the lock collar (left of center). This pin is entirely different from the one on the bottom of the flash (but connected). It's on the outside of the flash.
With my flash mounted on the camera, I can push that pin up...easily. I used a toothpick. A small knife or flat bladed screwdriver would work too. I think this is Pentax's solution to provide a fail safe. You can manually retract the pin from outside/above the shoe. Keep working it back and forth Paul. The shoe's fit is tight, but you don't have the inside pin engaged if the outside one is up. Regards, Bob S. On Jan 27, 2008 8:30 PM, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Stenquist" > Subject: Re: ARRRRGH! K10 D and 540 flash inseparable. > > > > Don't see it. With the flash in the locked position, I see only black > > plastic above the locking collar at the front of the flash. Ditto > > below it as well. Banging on the housing and working the lever have > > had no effect. > > Paul. see: > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/temp/_IGP8245.jpg > > The pin is circled. > This is a shot straight on from the front of the AF540FGZ. Lifting that pin > will lift the release pin as well. > If it isn't there, then you are pretty much buggered. > > William Robb > > > > -- > 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.
