The one thing that I'm having trouble with is confirming that the camera is on channel 2.
I have a vague recollection of having done so when I got the camera, and the Pentax book only said to mount the flash to the camera to set the wireless mode. Bourke's book doesn't say anything about it. On Mar 17, 2011, at 8:18 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > > Larry, > > I haven't played much with the wireless flash myself. But > let me share what settings I can think about. > > I hope you did it, but just in case (I refer to K-7, but expect that > K-5 has it done very similarly): > You want to set the camera flash setting (dial button down) to > W-flash. Done. > Then you also set in the C5 Custom Setting menu - > Built-in Flash Discharge Method (On=Master, Off= control flash) Done Custom 3, item 21, set to 2 > Set the remote flash to the "slave" mode. Done with the MCS switch at the bottom of the flash. > > Based on you description, I think you did all that. > > > According to the manual, for the external flash directly connected > to the camera, "Control" means that > "The flash directly connected to the camera is discharged as a control > flash only and does not discharge as main flash." > I expect that the same applies to the built-in one. > Then, I think this is consistent with what you described, - the built-in > not firing when set to the "control" mode. Which is what I wanted. > > The 540 firing on the preflash, - that sounds like either it is in > a wrong mode or there is a problem in the communication between the two. > The manual suggests to check /set the channel on both units, - > I hope you've done that. > I cannot think of anything else. > >> From what I can tell, not that many actively writing PDMLers are using > flash, especially P-TTL (and hence even fewer in the wireless mode). > Jostein is one of them, and I believe he used his flashes in the > multi-flash setting, - so he might be able to help you. > > Good luck! John asked: 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"? If you mean by fully charged, red light on, on the back, yes I did. What do you mean set to Contrast Control Sync? How is that set? Or checked? > > > I didn't quite like the fact that 540 wouldn't stay in the M mode > for the regular single-flash operation (very different from the 500). That is one of my biggest gripes with the 540. Dario, the on switch was set to wireless, I also tried the modeling light switch in both positions. John, it sounds like your experiments with the 540 echo mine. > > Igor > > > > Thu Mar 17 04:46:11 CDT 2011 > 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. > > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
