From: Larry Colen
On Dec 23, 2012, at 6:14 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
Wait a minute. Are you saying the button on the side of the
AF-540FGZ is supposed to control the head swiveling?
Tilt, rather than swivel.
I should also apologize, it seems the I had a total brainfart and for
some reason
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:57 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
I have experienced the problem others have reported with it going back
into default PTTL mode whenever it goes to sleep. I tried the suggestion
that was supposed to keep it from going into sleep, but that has only
been
On Dec 24, 2012, at 12:43 , Larry Colen wrote:
On Dec 22, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Dude, face it: yer 540 is _broken_. As in: not up to spec. Ie: your
issue isn't a design fault.
The weird thing is that I've sent it back to Pentax for repair, three times,
IIRC, at least
On Dec 22, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Dude, face it: yer 540 is _broken_. As in: not up to spec. Ie: your
issue isn't a design fault.
The weird thing is that I've sent it back to Pentax for repair, three times,
IIRC, at least twice. Mentioned the issue each time, and it always
On Dec 23, 2012, at 6:14 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
Wait a minute. Are you saying the button on the side of the AF-540FGZ is
supposed to control the head swiveling?
Tilt, rather than swivel.
I should also apologize, it seems the I had a total brainfart and for some
reason was remembering
On Dec 22, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Bipin Gupta wrote:
Larry, here is a marvelously cheap solution for an external Flash for
Pentax DSLRs. I get 98% keepers on my K20D with a $ 20 Quantaray
QB-6550U Flash Gun + a $ 10 QDA-P Flash Module (caution: do not buy
the QDA-PAF module).
I have a couple
On Dec 22, 2012, at 10:14 , Steve Sharpe d...@eastlink.ca wrote:
Maybe. I've noticed that my old Nikon D70's pop-up flash does a far better
job than any of my more modern Pentax flashes. Flash photography is another
one of Pentax's Achilles heels. I avoid it if possible.
Hell, I get
Pentax's repair testing needs serious improvement too. :-(
In fairness, testing for intermittent faults is always dicey. In each
of my 540 repair episodes they replaced one or two boards entirely, so
any flakey operation would disappear along with the old board(s). And
200 bills would also
Ok, that's it, I am moving to a Mamiya M645 next year, no more pixel counts!
If I need a K1000 I will borrow my brother's camera.
Just kidding, sort of. I am in fact thinking of getting a 645 now that they
are affordable.
Gerrit
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From: PDML
Quoting Gerrit Visser gerrit...@gmail.com:
Ok, that's it, I am moving to a Mamiya M645 next year, no more pixel counts!
If I need a K1000 I will borrow my brother's camera.
Just kidding, sort of. I am in fact thinking of getting a 645 now that they
are affordable.
When did they become
Sorry, should have qualified that as M645
Gerrit
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From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Brian Walters
Sent: December 24, 2012 6:03 PM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: Pentax? You know, I used to have a K1000. Whatever happened to
them
Quoting
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Larry Colen lrc at red4est.com wrote:
On Dec 22, 2012, at 9:31 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Pentax's view: Real photographers use manual flash.
Nope, Pentax's view is that photographers shoot in manual light or use
studio flash. My AF-540 won't freaking stay in
From: Igor Roshchin
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Larry Colen lrc at red4est.com wrote:
On Dec 22, 2012, at 9:31 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Pentax's view: Real photographers use manual flash.
Nope, Pentax's view is that photographers shoot in manual light or use
studio flash. My AF-540
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 9:14 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
From: Igor Roshchin
[...]
2. The one I had also came with the defective tilt control:
Sometimes It was hard to get it out of thelooking forward position, -
because the button on the side was stuck and not releasing the
From: Bruce Walker
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 9:14 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
From: Igor Roshchin
[...]
2. The one I had also came with the defective tilt control:
Sometimes It was hard to get it out of thelooking forward position, -
because the button on the side was stuck
At 10:33 AM -0500 12/22/12, Bipin Gupta wrote:
Steve, I agree with you 100%, that it's more the photographer than the
equipment. Believe me, I wanted to add that my photo composition,
indoor white balance (no flash on new born's face), dark area clarity
and overall rendition of the scene - baby,
From: Bipin Gupta bip...@gmail.com
Steve, I agree with you 100%, that it's more the photographer than the
equipment.
But what I noticed was, the Kid was shooting in fully Auto mode -
equivalent Green mode on Pentax - and still all his photos turned out
crisp, clear, colorful, sharp and
Pentax's view: Real photographers use manual flash.
On 12/22/2012 11:14 AM, Steve Sharpe wrote:
At 10:33 AM -0500 12/22/12, Bipin Gupta wrote:
Steve, I agree with you 100%, that it's more the photographer than the
equipment. Believe me, I wanted to add that my photo composition,
indoor white
On Dec 22, 2012, at 9:31 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Pentax's view: Real photographers use manual flash.
Nope, Pentax's view is that photographers shoot in manual light or use studio
flash. My AF-540 won't freaking stay in manual mode for any predictable amount
of time. And yes I've set all the
Dude, face it: yer 540 is _broken_. As in: not up to spec. Ie: your
issue isn't a design fault.
I'm not the only one on this list who has an AF540 or two that work
100% consistently in manual mode. My two are absolute workhorses. I
have fired both of them, in manual, both at full power,
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