Note that both the Pentax AF540FGZ and AF360FGZ offer Auto flash as well as P-TTL, digital TTL and analog TTL support.
-Adam On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds neat, very neat. Could sway me towards Metz. > > I'm very close to buying a flash, after I found an old Hama flash > bracket at the bottom of a closset. I have found memories about that > piece of equpment. It gave me much better light than on camera flash. > And it made me look pro, as I recall :-) > Now I've grown grey, and with it I will look just almost as cool as > Greywolf with his Speedgraphic PJ setup :-) > > Speaking of brackets. It has a standard sync connection. What's my > best options for triggering the flash if I want to have some kind > autofunction? That leaves standard sync out, deosn't it? I'm not very > fond of the wireless system, the flash tends to power down on me when > I need it. So I beleave the Pentax sync is the only alternative left. > Am I right about that? > > MaritimTim (flash novice) > > 2008/5/19 Thibouille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> a little feature which *might* be usefull to some so I will write >> about it again: >> Metz offers (with 58AF1 only, the 48AF1 has no embedded sensor) auto flash. >> Metz auto flash works "automaticaly" which means it reads >> aperture/iso/focal etc settings from the camera. >> >> It means you can use auto flash as easily as PTTL but.. without PTTL. >> Usefull if you don't like PTTL or if you need to cure problems as: >> >> * reflections (mirrors etc with which PTTL sucks) >> * poeple closing their eyes due to the early metering flash from PTTL. >> >> This feature will of course work as well with older camera (Z/PZ, MZ, >> SF, *ist, DSLRs etc.) >> It also feature HSS, wireless etc... of crouse. >> -- >> Thibault Massart aka Thibouille >> ---------------------- >> Photo: K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... >> Thinkpad: X23+UB,X60+UB >> Programing: D7 user (trying out D2007) >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > MaritimTim > > -- > 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.
