On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 02:46:11AM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: > Tonight, I was trying the K-5 out with flashes. I was mostly trying to use > the pop-up and the AF540 as fill flash with the stage lighting. I was having > an expected amount of difficulty, when I tried to set the pop up to control, > rather than master, and all it would do is fire the 540 as preflash, but > wouldn't actually fire the 540 for the shot. > > Except for once, right after power up. Also, even in slave mode, the 540, > which I can never get to stay in M on the camera, would only go into M or A > in wireless, and would never work as wireless P-TTL. I did RTFM, Page 192 of > the K-5 manual If I Recall Correctly. > > I'm sure that there is something simple, that I'm missing, but I'm missing it.
Are you sure the 540 was fully charged when you tried to trigger it? Did you make sure it wasn't set to "Contrast Control Sync"? -- 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.
