On Mar 17, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Sun Mar 16 01:47:01 EDT 2014 > Larry Colen wrote: > >> I can't get my mecablits 58 af2 to work as a dumb slave in servo mode. > > I've used mine (however, not af2, but the previous version, "af") as a > slave activated by the built-in flash without any problem. > >> Is there something obvious that I'm likely missing? > Obviously, you are missing your flash working as a slave. > :-) > > > On a serious note, - I have only one thought: what do you have it > activated by? TTL flash or PTTL one? > I don't know how it is done, but it is designed not to go off with the > PTTL's pre-flash. I wonder if your problem may somehow be related to > this, e.g. if your "main" unit doesn't do the preflash. > And, I assume you've made sure it sees the "master's" flash very well. > > Rather than that, - your flash might just have rebelled against slavery. > (Especially after your calling it "a dumb”.) I’m trying to trigger it off of studio flashes. I ended up giving up and using an external optical trigger shoe. -- 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.
