From: Walt
Well, a couple of weeks after my little financial windfall at work, I
finally decided I should use some of the money to join the flash
photography world. So, I went down to the local brick-and-mortar camera
shop in town and picked up this:
http://www.amazon.com/Promaster-7500EDF-Digital-Flash-Pentax/product-reviews/B00125XY28/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_btm?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
Shorty: http://goo.gl/QQ3Kz
I tested it out in the shop and it worked fine as far as I could tell.
The thing is, I know jack shizzle about using flash units. Still, it
seems like a well-built unit -- good heft and smooth rotation. The
wireless signal worked well as best I can tell, too. So, for the time
being, I feel like I got a decent deal: $169, discounted from the
regular $249 price tag.
When I got home, I spent the better part of the evening watching
tutorials on flash photography. The problem is, they all essentially
said, "This is where you can use flash to get this lighting effect."
There was no nitty-gritty technical detail to speak of -- as though TTL
were completely reliable, which I gather isn't really the case. So, I
was wondering where I might be able to learn more about shooting manual
flash in the event the TTL function fails me -- something to give me an
idea of when to adjust the flash output power, at what distances, etc. I
know nothing about guide numbers, flash modes, or anything like that.
Anybody got any suggestions to that end? Any guidance would be appreciated.
I don't think it does PTTL, so it's going to be a PITA to use with K10D
and later Pentax DSLRs.
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