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AF 200T Bit The Dust
I bought a af280t off fleabay but despite being described as good condition it didnt work so i sent it back . Bought another the day after (great condition)and when that arrived thought wow this looks good, opened the battery door and found only three battery/spring terminals the other had rotted a...
Posted by timcx500e on 05/12/2010 - 20:52
TTL on a K5
tt-l flash does not work with anything past the Istd and ds2 you need p-ttl for newer cameras. I have the same ringflash, and here is how I use it: manual mode. an easy method is to set it to manual, choose your aperture and shutter, and adjust the iso off one of the dials on my k10 to tune the ...
Posted by Don on 27/10/2010 - 17:04
TTL on a K5
try it the way I suggested. iso 200, 1/4 power, f10, 1/160 sec. test shot, then adjust your aperture and check your histogram, from there it will be easy to adjust the iso dial to tune the exposure. manual is not that hard.... it isn't like you gotta mail out some slides and wait for them to be ...
Posted by malcolmk on 27/10/2010 - 18:49
TTL on a K5
try it the way I suggested. iso 200, 1/4 power, f10, 1/160 sec. test shot, then adjust your aperture and check your histogram, from there it will be easy to adjust the iso dial to tune the exposure. manual is not that hard.... it isn't like you gotta mail out some slides and wait for them to be ...
Posted by malcolmk on 27/10/2010 - 19:31
TTL on a K5
it goes to 1/4 power which with my 100mm macro, is in the range I mentioned earlier.... so I'm guessing the 100 loses way more light at min focus?
Posted by Don on 27/10/2010 - 21:27
TTL on a K5
Ah okay thank you Don. Probably the distance from the front element to subject with the 100 is twice as much as with the 35 so... you probably lose half the light compared to the 35? there is that, also light loss from the fact that true macros effectively have the extension tubes built in and lo...
Posted by Don on 27/10/2010 - 21:50
strobes with 2 AF360FGZ and k10d
Hi Chaps, Am doing and event photo shooting at friend’s baby christening tomorrow. Am intending to setup strobes using 2 AF360FGZ and k10d (on wireless) as I always do. I have 3 umbrellas; shoot through, Silver and gold. I have only one stand for the brolly but have a second tripod and hotsho...
Posted by Spacus on 29/10/2010 - 10:20
Mobile Flash System?
4x Metz 45 CT1 sounds good to me if they have manual controls. YOu don't need a P-TTL flash at all if you've the triggers. Try to find flashes with a metal hotshoe, hotshoe are quite easy to break :? For triggers Yongnuo RF-602 or Cactus V4 seems to be the current deals. For stands and umbre...
Posted by Anvh on 29/10/2010 - 17:27
Mobile Flash System?
Best thing you could look at is the Calumet Genesis 300 monoblock heads at £169 which run on mains and battery. The battery pack is £149. I will have a look for that but I just bought the 4 Hammer Heads Metz 45 CT1 for £20 :shock: FOR ALL FOUR and they are all working fine :shock::shock: So I jus...
Posted by SmutjeUK on 30/10/2010 - 10:22
Mobile Flash System?
4x Metz 45 CT1 sounds good to me if they have manual controls. YOu don't need a P-TTL flash at all if you've the triggers. Try to find flashes with a metal hotshoe, hotshoe are quite easy to break :? For triggers Yongnuo RF-602 or Cactus V4 seems to be the current deals. For stands and umbre...
Posted by SmutjeUK on 01/11/2010 - 13:04
Pentax AF360FGZ Auto-Flash: shedding light on wireless flash (and other dark corners of the manual)
Like some others in this forum, I've taken advantage of the PC World offer on the AF360FGZ, wanting to use off-camera flash and hoping that a Pentax model would work happily with the camera. Now I'm struggling to understand how this flashgun works, particularly in off-camera modes with my K-x - and ...
Posted by Prufrock on 30/10/2010 - 22:50
Pentax AF360FGZ Auto-Flash: shedding light on wireless flash (and other dark corners of the manual)
Firstly, don't confuse the term wireless with radio. The camera and flash communicate wirelessly using pulses of light, not radio waves. Next, does your camera have the latest firmware? To set up for wireless flash . . . . On the Flash: Power switch to ON, move right hand slider down to ...
Posted by Mannesty on 31/10/2010 - 00:11
Pentax AF360FGZ Auto-Flash: shedding light on wireless flash (and other dark corners of the manual)
Well! I'm overwhelmed by the number and detail of the responses here - thanks everyone! And I can report success - at last I've got the flash to fire properly, even though it's not quite as I expected - yet! I'm sorry not to have got back sooner - we've been out today and I've only just been able...
Posted by Prufrock on 31/10/2010 - 22:37
Pentax AF360FGZ Auto-Flash: shedding light on wireless flash (and other dark corners of the manual)
A couple more things to check on the flash. 1: Have you changed the mode to something other than P-TTL? If so, change it back. It should default to P-TTL on power up. 2: For this initial troubleshooting test make sure the Synch. switch is set to the extreme left, the 'green' position. If you ...
Posted by Mannesty on 01/11/2010 - 17:33
Pentax AF360FGZ Auto-Flash: shedding light on wireless flash (and other dark corners of the manual)
Hi This was some time ago, but in case anyone chances on this because of a similar issue, it turns out that: My first AF360 was after all slightly faulty: although it worked fine on the camera, it didn't seem to funtion in wireless mode, at least not reliably. It took a visit to the nice peopl...
Posted by Prufrock on 24/01/2014 - 21:37
Pentax AF360FGZ Auto-Flash: shedding light on wireless flash (and other dark corners of the manual)
The K70 is one of a few recent camera models without Wireless capabilities. However there are other recent ones that do have it. In my Supplement document to my "Pentax Flash Guide" there is a table listing every camera back as far as the K100/d with the on board flash features provided. The Supplem...
Posted by McGregNi on 25/02/2018 - 21:16
Pentax AF360FGZ Auto-Flash: shedding light on wireless flash (and other dark corners of the manual)
In my Supplement document to my "Pentax Flash Guide" there is a table listing every camera back as far as the K100/d with the on board flash features provided. It's odd you mention that the K100D had the wireless flash control option because my K100D (purchased in 2007) with up to date firmware did...
Posted by Cdn_Sailor on 26/02/2018 - 17:43
Pentax AF360FGZ Auto-Flash: shedding light on wireless flash (and other dark corners of the manual)
I agree I was a little surprised when the K70 didn't have wireless flash control other than as an Optical Slave. I guess they had to sacrifice the flash RF transceiver chip on the motherboard for the Wi-Fi Transceiver chip like they sacrificed the popup flash for GPS on the K3II and K1. I guess f...
Posted by Cdn_Sailor on 28/02/2018 - 14:46
Cactus Wireless Flash Trigger System V4
I've a set and never had a problem with them except that the AF540FGZ doesn't want to work on them like it should but other flashes work without a problem. I've contact the manufactures about that and they were most helpful and offer even a cash back but it's cheaper to buy a new flash then to buy ...
Posted by Anvh on 01/11/2010 - 13:56
Cactus Wireless Flash Trigger System V4
Ahhh glad I could help :) It was quite a head scratcher, I eventually figured out that with low batteries it would still fire, but only from a couple of feet away and only if everything was pointing in the right direction :lol:. With new batteries the range went back to normal and everything seems t...
Posted by thoughton on 01/11/2010 - 16:30
