There's a small bump on the top edge of the fixing collar that comes in contact with this "release" pin. When you move the collar all the way to the released position it litterally pushes this pin all the way up, which moves in concert with the locking pin below releasing it.
Take another look. Remember you're looking at the front of the flash, not the back. -Brendan --- Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > On Jan 27, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Brendan MacRae wrote: > > > Paul, > > > > I just noticed something, ignore my last post! > > > > There's a pin rides on the top of the lock if you > look > > at the front of the flash. That is part of the > > mechanism for the locking pin. With the flash in > the > > locked position, use a small flat bladed > screwdriver > > to lift this pin up and that should free the > locking > > pin (as long as it's not bent). > > > > -Brendan > > --- Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >> Yes, it's true. I mounted the 540 flash on the > K10D > >> this afternoon in > >> an effort to shoot some birdies, and now it won't > >> come off. I tried a > >> little bit of WD40 ( a light lubricant), lots of > >> tugging and pulling. > >> I'm guessing that a screw has come loose on the > hot > >> shoe and is > >> locking it in place. Any ideas? I'm thinking I'm > >> going to have to > >> send camera and flash to Pentax. A pisser. > >> Paul > >> > >> -- > >> 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. > >> > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > ______________ > > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > > -- > > 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. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- 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.
