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A Lighting Technique
For those of you wishing to experiment, here is one of my lighting techniques...Used in the Manga Madness and Diva series. http://www.stevesforums.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=575706&forum_id=54 Too complicated for me at this time of night... I'll come back in the morning when my brain has cr...
Posted by Tyr on 26/07/2007 - 23:33
Slaves, old flashes and bulbs etc
I'm new to this K10D camera and I love it until I want to go underground. I learnt cave photography the old fashioned way... you stick your camera on a tripod, set it to B lock the shutter open and then wander around in the dark letting off your flashes and this may mean in my case over 200 for one...
Posted by pete_the_caver on 29/07/2007 - 00:04
Metz 58 AF-1
Hello all, I'm a long time lurker on here and thought I'd surface to give some information on this flash. I've bought one, from SRS Watford, great service from them as you lot already know. I've never had such an advanced flash before, only having used the Sigma EF500DG ST before. When I got t...
Posted by yelvertoft on 31/08/2007 - 21:29
2 AF540FGZ's versus 2 head studio kit
D-Lite 4's here as well. Love 'em. I've been using a 540 and 360 for a while, but they tend to be a little bit dim in some situations where the lights may need to be several feet back and shooting through an umbrella or soft box. I picked up an tiny, old, dumb hot shoe flash (with safe trigg...
Posted by amoringello on 31/10/2007 - 10:05
Broken AF360FGZ anyone?
The AF360FGZ suffers from, what I believe, is an outrageous design flaw and I think Pentax should offer to take them all back in exchange for AF540FGZ's. They obviously learned their lesson from the AF360FGZ's poor design and made sure that the problem would not reccur.
Posted by Mannesty on 01/09/2007 - 14:15
Broken AF360FGZ anyone?
I have seen the same kind of problems in numerous devices. For some reason there are not many designers who can come up with a decent battery door... My old flashgun for example, a Regula Variant 740-2mfd just had a nice front cover which you could slide off. The people who designed my Sunpak hamm...
Posted by LiamD on 02/09/2007 - 12:06
AF360FGZ Battery door problem
I have only had my 360 a few months and after reading several posts from people here i am very very careful when changing batteries. I have too agree the door is very flimsy and reminds me of a cheap kids toy. The first sign of any problems with it and its back to the store and an e-mail to Pentax w...
Posted by Clarky on 12/10/2007 - 14:14
Help wanted please.
Mattmatic. Thanks for the info. I probably will not be taking any set poses, it will all be on the fly. So I assume it will be faster to use just Auto ISO and AV. There will be too many different scenes to use "non intuitive" method, although this sounds like a great way to go. I ...
Posted by hotshots4u2c on 10/10/2007 - 21:10
Pentax Xtra Flash
It's very weak. You'd be better off getting a second-hand third-party flashgun with a built-in sensor. Guide number about 11, it would seem, from the instruction sheet. I'm playing with one at the moment, providing some back light in conjunction with my Samsung 540 in manual mode. This ha...
Posted by ChrisA on 13/10/2007 - 00:15
Pentax Xtra Flash
It's very weak. You'd be better off getting a second-hand third-party flashgun with a built-in sensor. Guide number about 11, it would seem, from the instruction sheet. I'm playing with one at the moment, providing some back light in conjunction with my Samsung 540 in manual mode. This ha...
Posted by George Lazarette on 13/10/2007 - 14:53
Pentax Xtra Flash
The AF240Z is excellent for ... when you want to trigger another flash... and for a number of other uses. You can point it away from the subject if you don't want fill flash. Well yes, but it's a whacking great thing to have on the hot shoe when you just want the camera in your hand. When I h...
Posted by ChrisA on 13/10/2007 - 15:10
VIVITAR 6000 AF FLASH TTL AUTO FOCUS
Will this flash work on a K110D. I want to attach it to a cosina 100mm macro lense. There seems to be two schools of thought, one is that it will only work in manual mode and the other say it will work fully with TTL and auto focus. Does anybody has any recommendations for similar ring flashes that...
Posted by yke78uk on 30/10/2007 - 16:15
VIVITAR 6000 AF FLASH TTL AUTO FOCUS
The K110D doesn't support TTL. Only the *ist-D and *ist-Ds digital bodies supported TTL. (All the DSLRs support P-TTL, but only the expensive digital flashes will support this.) You can use: * "A" mode on the flash * "M" mode on the flash (Check out some of the other ...
Posted by MattMatic on 30/10/2007 - 16:21
VIVITAR 6000 AF FLASH TTL AUTO FOCUS
Thanks for that.
Posted by yke78uk on 30/10/2007 - 16:29
AF360FGZ and K10D problem
I am having a problem with this combination recently. Not having used the flashgun for some time I yesterday got it out because I wanted to use it at an event that I wanted to photograph. However I encountered a rather funny problem when I came to use it. The ready light lit just after switch o...
Posted by boxcam78 on 03/11/2007 - 14:17
AF360FGZ and K10D problem
I had a similar problem recently and couldn't figure it out at first until I noticed the flash was set to TTL instead of P-TTL. Scrolling through the modes wouldn't bring P-TTL back again (it went TTL>Auto>Manual>SB and then straight back to TTL). I was getting quite frustrated and read...
Posted by hefty1 on 03/11/2007 - 14:46
AF360FGZ and K10D problem
Oddly I have a similar problem. Flash was working fine recently on both my K10 and my istD. Had to send the k10D for repair, but now the flash doesn't work on my istD. I'll have to bring the flash to the shop and see if it will work on another body. Unfortunately the SB mode trick didn't he...
Posted by amoringello on 03/11/2007 - 15:04
AF 360 FGZ - should I get one?
When I was in Yorkshire a few weeks back, I went to Settle, and had to go in the camera shop there because they sold nothing but Pentax. No idea what their prices were like, or what they had really, just that it was all Pentax. :D Dan
Posted by Daniel Bridge on 12/11/2007 - 14:06
New Metz 58 AF-1 P-TTL
A new toy to play with and boy what a toy it is not! This is one of the best flashes I have ever used. HSS works perfectly, metering it quite good, although needs a +1 flash compensation dialled in for bounce in some circumstances. Wireless mode is ok but is very limited doe to the short range...
Posted by Tyr on 22/11/2007 - 22:30
Umbrellas - Bounch or shoot-through
Think I'll order a shoot through to compliment the brolly-box type though because I'm finding I get the reflection of the light stand and the back of the gun in the picture. You can see that here in the lower right corner.
Posted by rtunstal on 14/01/2008 - 14:12
