On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure what you're doing wrong, but I usually have no problem getting > the AF540 to work as fill. In daylight, you do have to use high speed synch > mode of course, and the flash will revert to a 1/180th shutter speed if you > don't override it. I generally use program "P" mode on the K-5 and set the > shutter speed up to a value that works with the stop and ISO I want -- quite > often 1/500th, f5.6 and ISO 200 in backlit or crosslit conditions in > daylight. I usually set the exposure comp on the flash to -.5 or -1, > depending on the amount of fill I want. I have occasionally experienced > strange exposure problems, but generally this technique works for me. > Paul >
Hmm. Thanks for your thoughts, Paul. I hardly ever use program mode... no reason really, just don't... but I'll give your method a try. A dumb question, maybe, but when you set high-speed sync, do you set it on the flash itself and/or in the menu of the camera? I was having difficulty over-riding the shutter speed before I went to M... Thanks, -c -- 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.
