On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:03:45PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2011, at 2:46 AM, 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. > > The answer actually came from the DPR Pentax SLR forum:
[ . . . ] Ah. But you said you'd checked with the 540 FGZ manual... The last bullet in the "Advanced Functions" checklist for wireless mode says to confirm the slave mode is set to SL1 -- 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.
