Hi Bernd >1. use a Pentax hot shoe grip or modify your flash according to Cotty's >instructions. >( But what I don't understand there: he says in his description: 'Of the >hotshoe contacts on the AF280T, the left-hand contact is the ''flash >quench'' contact.' That's OK for me as it is the left contact looking at the >bottom side of the AF 280 connector.
http://www.macads.co.uk/pentax/af280tmodsketch5.html shows the blue wire in question. The drawing is orientated with the flash facing away from the viewer. So that you're looking at the back of the flash. Hence the corresponding contact on the camera would be the left one, with the camera facing away from you also. > But at the pics in his site, the blue >wire seems for me to be wrong one to modify ?! Or is the contact part turned >180 degrees in the picture ? If I look at the camera contacts from the back >side, the left contact is the TTL contact and the right one selects the X >speed ! ). That is correct. What I wanted to do was to be able to was disable the TTL quench contact at will, in my case by fitting a simple switch in line. Contacts explained: http://www.geocities.com/sorefeets/lx/lx_flash.htm In practice, I flip my (Steve Larson inspired) switch, and set the power switch usually to MS-L. In bright ambient light at reasonable distance for, say a portrait, this allows the flash to fire and neatly fills in shadows in the eye sockets / under a baseball cap. The camera will be set to X, forcing it to use 1/75th sec shutter time, and I simply bring the aperture in manual to match the exposure of 1/75 sec. I find that outside on an overcast day, I underexpose by up to a stop (I shoot negs) otherwise the faces tend to burn a bit on the neg. Generally it works well, although I'm restricted to using 1/75th sec and whatever aperture that requires in the available range. Generally it's not a problem using 200 ISO film. I'm happy with the results. On a bright day it puts a great sparkle in the eyes for family snaps, which is really the only time I use it. My 'real' portraits are low-key moody affairs, and I never use flash for those. HTH Cotty _______________________________________________________ Personal email traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MacAds traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out the UK Macintosh ads http://www.macads.co.uk - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
