That's odd, because if I try to press my button JUST until I can swivel, then it is also able to tilt. My flash has the ability to tilt just a bit BELOW level (in addition to swiveling up). Maybe try pressing DOWN on the tilt and seeing if that frees anything up. Also, since you CAN swivel, try raising/lowering the tilt at EACH position of the swivel and see if it will move on any of them. (You've probably already tried that too, huh?)
If you have a thin feeler gauge, see if you can work it all the way around the PRESS button. I'm still guessing that it is hung up on one side. My fear is that it has been in that depressed position long enough that the spring under the button has lost its sproing. But that really shouldn't matter because it is the button in the DEPRESSED position that frees up the tilt & swivel. Very confused as to what the problem is. On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Darren Addy wrote: >> >> Larry, >> I've got the Metz 58 AF-1, but I think it is similar. If the "Press" >> button seems to be stuck part way in, I would mess around with >> pressing it in different ways while simultaneously slightly twisting >> the horizontal bounce. You may find that the button releases (or goes >> in further). Mine seems a bit wonky at times (I can press the button >> in and it will stay depressed by itself, like it has gone too far into >> the casing and one side it caught underneath the edge of the hole that >> it depresses into. Playing around with it has (so far) gotten it to >> spring back out. Hope your does the same (although I'm guessing you >> have already tried this). > > > I can get it to release enough to swivel, though not to tilt. > > I can't get the button to totally free up. > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) > > -- > 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. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- 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.
