I have a couple of promaster flashes, they work fine. When I killed the pentax module of one, I picked up another off ebay reasonably inexpensively.
On Apr 9, 2012, at 6:00 AM, Walt Gilbert wrote: > On 4/9/2012 7:39 AM, Brian Walters wrote: >> Quoting Walt Gilbert <[email protected]>: >> >>> Actually, after looking again, it does appear to be a standard hot shoe. >>> When I first looked at it before, it appeared that one of the electronic >>> contacts on the flash was off-set a little more than the contacts on the >>> camera hot shoe. But, after looking at it again, it looks like they do line >>> up after all. >>> >>> As for the discharge voltage, that I don't know. The only documentation >>> that came with it is repair and service receipts for the camera. I'll have >>> to see if I can find it somewhere on the web. >>> >>> Thanks for the heads-up! >> >> >> According to this page: >> >> http://www.botzilla.com/photo/strobeVolts.html >> >> ....the Promaster has a trigger voltage of 4-5 volts. >> >> >> Based on this discussion, that's probably OK - but it's your camera :-)> >> >> http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-flashes-lighting-technique/87679-flash-trigger-voltage-pentax-official-answer.html >> >> >> > Thanks, Brian! > > Yeah, that looks safely within the voltage range of the K20D. I guess the > issue at this point is getting the correct dedicated module for it. I've > found a little info on that and so far the cheapest I've been able to find is > $40. > > Gonna have to do some cogitatin' on this. > > -- Walt > > -- > 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.
