Flash gun recycle time - resolved!!

Hi there, I posted sometime ago about my 360 behaving eratically and having long recycle times. Having updated firmwear (thanks Matt), undertaken some long nights on the internet researching, I finally borrowed a fellow pentax users 360 and set up some basic tests between the two.

WOW it was imediately apparent that my gun has some serious issues!!! It's off to Pentax on Monday first thing to be repaired. It's just a pitty that, having had it for 15 months nearly, I've only just really got into it. The digital purchase has lead me up a very steep learning curve indeed. I have hardly used it to date, so it's safe to assume that it may have been like that from purchase. Now it's out of guarantee and will cost me!

The moral of the story is, if you purchase a piece of kit or like me a complete kit test it all when you buy it, don't leave it till you get round to it. Yes life can be busy and we all put things off and off and off again, but now I will always test equipment when I get it.

Thanks for all help and postings, especially matt!

anna

Your first post on this subject was in September. Was the gun still within warranty then? If so, you might be able to use your post as evidence that the gun malfunctioned wuthin the warranty period.

This is a Pentax forum, after all.

But I'm glad you have at least diagnosed the problem.

G