From: Bruce Walker
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.
Will it stay that way when I turn it off?
Or is this something I'm going to have to reset every time I use the flash?
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