You're absolutely right, Larry. It was a lead-balloon experiment. I'm
going to pick up sync cords and wireless triggers next week, and maybe
see if I can pick up a reasonably priced slave.
Nevertheless, I'm starting to get the hang of manual flash and that's a
minor miracle in and of itself.
-- Walt
On 6/4/2013 7:24 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
You will probably have the best luck, right off the bat,
using all of the strobes in manual mode. This means you
cannot trigger off the pop-up flash because Pentax can't
understand why anyone would want to make any flash exposure
decisions for themselves, or even worse, remotely trigger
any flash that wasn't made with Pentax to use their wireless
sync protocol.
If you don't want the dumb strobe on the camera to illuminate
the scene when it triggers the external strobes, put an IR filter
in front of it:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/292664-REG/LEE_Filters_87CP3_3_x_3_Infrared.html
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 04:56:12PM -0500, Walt wrote:
Ignore the last question. I just read (in some online literature
that didn't come with the unit) that it operates on the light from
the master flash, which I figure is good. I'm going to give it a
whirl with some confiscated toys and see what comes of it.
-- Walt
On 6/4/2013 4:18 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:
Actually the AF 200T has a built in sensor, which can be used in
either "red" or "green" mode to give pretty good automatic results
even with the K20D so I expect that it will work just as well with
the K-5. In fact the the flash recognizes the K20D in it's Green
and P modes to set the suggested shutter speed and aperture,
(including normal exposure biasing), it doesn't support any of the
more advanced flash modes from the quick menu, but the fact that
it does any of that at all is a plus. The AF 200S however
supports TTL automatic only IIRC, so you can only use it as a
manual flash.
Pentax's P-TTL implementation on the K20D used to give such
inconsistent results that Bill Robb seemed to have a daily rant
about it a few years ago which stopped me from buying a more
advanced flash than the AF 280T which works pretty much as the AF
200T does.
On 6/4/2013 3:14 PM, Walt wrote:
Well, crap. ;)
On the plus-side, when I finally learn manual flash well enough
to get consistent and reasonably predictable results, I'll be
set!
-- Walt
On 6/4/2013 1:52 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Sorry, Walt, these are strictly useful now as fully manual. They
support TTL, but your cameras don't. And they don't have any slave
functions at all.
To use these wirelessly you need to get some cheap wireless triggers,
like the Cowboy Studios NPT-04's ($20 for Tx/Rx).
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Walt <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks, Bruce.
Do you suppose they'd be good as slaves when used with
optical triggers?
-- Walt
On 6/4/2013 9:32 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
The AF200T is a pretty good fully manual flash for lower
power uses. I
just bought one for $30 to fit inside my small 18" softbox. The only
problem, besides having a low GN is erratic recharge
times. The AF200S
is similar but less useful as its power setting is less adjustable.
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Walt <[email protected]> wrote:
So, I came an opportunity to buy this bunch of photo
equipment -- *for
the
paltry sum of $200* -- and couldn't pass on it.
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/8943109389/#large
Canon AE-1 Program with FD 50/1.8 attached - Excellent
Pentax ME Super with SMC-M 28/2.8 attached - Excellent
SMC-M 50/1.7
SMC-M 80-200/4.5
SMC-A 28-135/4
AF200T Flash
AF200S flash
AFT1 Telephoto flash adapter
(2) cable releases
Tiffen 49mm Star Effect filter
Tiffen 52mm Polarizer
Tiffen 49mm Skylight 1A
Tiffen 52mm Skylight 1A
Tiffen Step-up ring (screw-in)
Cokin - Spot-Violet A64
Cokin - Spot-Blue A67
Cokin - Gradual M2 A. 127
Cokin - Gradual E1 A. 130
Cokin filter holder
All original caps, front and rear.
All original cases.
Original straps plus additional custom straps.
Everything looks to be well-nigh pristine.
I feel like I did pretty well.
-- Walt
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