On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 08:22:21PM +0200, AlunFoto scripsit: > Well I'm glad that we agree it's not how P-TTL flash is supposed to work.
I never thought it was doing the right thing; I thought *it* might think it was doing the right thing. (Much like trying to let the default metering take pictures of polar bears in snow...) > 2009/7/12 Graydon <[email protected]>: > > Got a spare camera body about? :) > > Dusted off the old *istD. Same thing. :-( > > Tested the full aperture range this time, and at flash zoom 48mm, f/22 > gives a salvageable exposure of a brick wall at 2 m distance. As I > open up the aperture, it gets progressively overexposed. It seems that > at 48mm, the flash abandons P-TTL and fires all the power it's got. Here's hoping it's not supposed to do that. > Oh- kay. Time for repair. Due to pick up the K-7 this week anyway, so > I'll turn the flash in at the same time. :-) That will certainly give you something to distract you from the absence of the flash! > Thanks for walking it through with me, Graydon. Hey, good to find out that the hardware debugging skills generalize. :) -- Graydon -- 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.
