John, what ISO and exposure were you using? Rick
> On Nov 19, 2019, at 12:04 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > First up is a lesson that if you can't get a fast enough shutter speed to > hand hold it, GO BACK TO THE CAR AND GET THE DAMN TRIPOD. There's just too > much noise. FWIW, it looks great on the back of the camera. > > I'm extremely disappointed that I traveled almost 900 miles and blew the > shot!: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/49091101082 > > The second shot was taken with flash & I'm reasonably pleased with it: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/49090897656 > > This was taken with a flaky Vivitar 285HV. All of my Pentax flashes appear to > be dead now. And since all of them are OLD, none will be covered by warranty. > > Is there any place I can send them that will actually repair them? Or should > I just trash them & replace? > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > 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. -- 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.

