Okay, LOL!! On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > In case any of you were wondering: > > 1. If you are using a Wansen-brand cheap radio wireless flash controller, you > may find that it works better when the sending unit on the camera and the > receiving unit on the flash are both set to the same channel. > > 2. More seriously, you may also find that this setup is a bit unreliable even > when channel synchronicity has been achieved, but reliability/consistency > seems to improve if you trigger a Test flash via the sending unit each time > you power up the flash. This may save you several trips through the surf out > to the rock where you have your flash balanced so as to light up the > foreground boulder, as you fiddle with connections etc. > > 3. If you drop your AF540 FGZ II in the lake and it lands on a partially > covered rock and the battery door pops open and the batteries fall out and > water fills the battery compartment, and if you then leave the flash with > battery door open, on the shelf in the motel room for two days, and if you > then take said flash home and pack it away, and if you then remember to check > it after a few days and install new batteries, then you will find that the > flash works just fine. While I don’t recommend following the above procedure, > it is comforting to know that the WR claim for this flash apparently has some > merit. > > Stay tuned next month, same time, same station, as your intrepid field > photographer and his close companion Obviousman take on the continuing > challenges of photography in the wild… > > stan > > > -- > 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.
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