----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dayton" Subject: Re: Another Day, Another Wedding
>I know you had several LX's (maybe still have them). I wonder if you > ever shot weddings with them and if so, how the experience compared > to using the latest and greatest from Pentax... As much as I liked the LX, I found it's refusal to fire the flash in backlit situations to be annoying enough that I only shot one wedding with them. The camera totally buggered me because of the flash control and I went to K1000 bodies instead. I actually prefer the K1000 operation to the K20D (I know they are completely different kettles of fish) because the controls don't move around as easily, and because print film is much more forgiving than digital capture. In the film era, I set the camera ot 1/60th, the lens to f/5.6, the flash to f/5.6 and took pictures. If I was underexposed, the flash took care of it, and if I was overexposed I just printed through the extra density. Now I have to worry about overexposure, and I also have to worry about accidentally bumping a dial and screwing up everything. These new cameras want to work as integrated systems with the flash units, and I am certain they work well, but trying to make an AF540FGZ flash into an off camera unit is too much of a bodge for me to bother with. I suppose the answer is to look at the new Metz 76 unit, but I just don't think I'd make enough use of a new flash, and my old 60 series flash is just too darned good to give up. And yes, I still have 3 LX bodies and a full set of prisms. 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.
