On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Peter Loveday <[email protected]> wrote: > > [...] 540FGZ is so frustrating for off camera work. > It wouldn't bother me if it switched to PTTL when on camera; but doing it on > power on even when not connected is ridiculous.
Possibly easy fix: disable the Auto Power Off function. Page 17 of manual. If it doesn't power down it shouldn't switch modes. Auto power off is somewhat pointless anyway. There's no appreciable battery drain after hours of on time. On the other hand it prevents complete discharge if you walk away from the set and forget to turn the flashes off. Does yours spontaneously flip to P-TTL mode while simply sitting there on a stand? That's what Larry reports (I think) and is not an issue I've ever seen with my two. They always come up in P-TTL -- ie a total configuration reset -- upon power-up, but otherwise they stay put in whatever mode I set them, especially off-camera. I'm starting to wonder if there are different firmware revision levels of the 540FGZ out there. -- -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.
