just a quick somewhat related question on the side: I recently picked up in the bay four hotshoe adaptors F and two spiral cords to connect them. two of the Fs have a broken casing and will ultimately fail although I think that may be some time away yet. hence my question: with the AF-540FGZ I can plug the cable directly into the flash; is there any benefit from using the adaptor F other than for daisychaining with two adaptors stacked underneath the flash? and, for lack of a manual, can I safely stack themwithout ill effect on my gear? thanks Ecke
2011/3/18 Larry Colen <[email protected]>: > > 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. > -- 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.
