On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 12:24 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Bruce Walker > >> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Quoting Bruce Walker <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> So, summary: AF540's may be electrically a bit fragile, and kinda >>>> pricey, but they are friggen' workhorses, and will stand up to heavy >>>> use. They lit up a concrete wall 12 feet high over an area at least 12 >>>> feet across, bright enough to be seen nicely at f/8. >>> >>> >>> >>> Good to hear. ?I don't have a 540 but my 360 survived a fall onto a >>> >>> concrete floor recently and continued on as if nothing had happened. >>> >>> The only issue I have is that in manual mode with a manual-focus lens on >>> the camera, the manual zoom feature of the flash wants to reset itself >>> after >>> every few shots. ?That was happening before the fall so maybe it's a >>> feature >>> >>> of electrical fragility as well. >> >> >> It shouldn't be doing that. I don't think mine do, but I rarely use >> them on-camera, and never with a manual lens, so I wouldn't normally >> encounter this situation. >> > > Mine reverts to default power on settings any time it's inactive long enough > to go to sleep. > > When I first got it, it wouldn't zoom; had to send it to Pentax for repair > right out of the box. > > Since it came back from them everything has worked, but it will only hold > settings until it times out. When I wake it up, I have to reprogram any > settings I was using all over again.
Ah! I know it well. There's an easy fix, John: you program off the idle/sleep timer. Hold the Light button for 2-3 seconds until you see SL, press Mode once to get PH on the display, press the S button to change the digit from 1 to 2. In PH mode 2 it *never* sleeps. It will run until it exhausts the battery. -- -bmw -- 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.
