On Mar 18, 2011, at 1:24 AM, John Francis wrote: > 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
Aha! I did check the manual, but it looked like it ended on page 36, with pictures on 37. It didn't dawn on me to turn the page. :-( > > > -- > 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.
