Yes indeed but with close up shots you're simply to close to the subject and then the flash even set to trigger (controller is the word) will contribute to the scene, with normal shooting it will not have any or very minimal effect on your photo.
Besides trigger/controller you've the options master and slave.

Matt has the answer.
https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/link-af-point-and-ae---doh---9785

But like Richard says, if it's more of a selling show then I can see why some don't want to be on it. There are much more interesting shows for them.
If you want all the big names you should go to Photokina at the end of this year, probably Canon and Nikon together hire a whole hall again
Even Pentax had a decent stand.

18,000 square meters VS 210,000 square meters, it's worth a trip to Germany

I've no idea if you can link an action to a key shortcut.
You can simply "play" the action through the action tab, it will then do his thing.

Well just looked into the shortcut menu, you can not have an action under a key but you can have the function "play" from the action tab under a key. If you make sure you've selected the right action you can press the key and it will preform that action.
That's the best I can offer.

The only reason I used that was to show that not the lowest entry level models but those a step above are sold better, making it for me questionable how much market a camera under the K-X would get and how much it would take away from the K-X... so I find it questionable if Pentax need a lower entry level camera then the K-X.

I never had it about numbers and no one in this thread had beside the fact the numbers doesn't count up.

They needed to left out the AF indication in the viewfinder but the K-X for example has 11 AF points so it can be done.
The K-M probably had some AF that weren't up to standard for the K200D and the K20D so they reduce it to 3 AF and if they worked well then they went into the K-M. Just speculation here but it isn't uncommon.

The biggest problem for introducing the K-M would be parts.
The K-X and the K-7 both use a different processor and other upgraded stuff and also the 10mp Sensor is not made any more I believe so they need to put a new sensor in it... I don't think Pentax would make a good move if they would do that.
They have the new production running for new parts and then they need to downgrade them to make older parts again

So yes a K-M with new bits would be great... but well that would be the K-X wouldn't it?

Ah okay ^^;
Well at least your Samsung should work the same as my camera but I've no idea about your flash.

You should get this update (v1.30) if you haven't link
it allows you to use the pop-up flash as "controller" that way it shouldn't get much if any flash in the photo.

I've no idea how your flash work so try to find a way to set it on wireless.
When you've found that.
- put the flash on the camera
- turn the camera on
- select in the FN menu (shortcut menu where you can select your shutter, white balance, ISO and flash) select there flash and then select wireless flash and don't press any other buttons.
- in the top display you now see ch 1,2,3 or 4 those are the digital channels that are used for communication with your flash, just select one with your scroll wheel on the back and press the shutter to confirm.
- if everything is al right your flash has automaticly taken over the channel and your flash should now work wireless.
- the only limitation you have is that it doesn't work with HSS (high shutter sync) all the other flash modes on your Metz 48 can be used.

Also you don't need to do this everytime, your camera and flash will remember the channel so you can simply set them both on and on wireless flash and they should work straight away.


I hope this does it for you, I'm sure someone with a Metz 48 can help you with the rest.

Why no?
Only with close up work you see the pop up flash in your photo, or in some ones eyes.

I bought something like the kit you show there but for almost half the money €80
It was a LumoPro LP604 lightstand + LumoPro LP633 Umbrella Swivel w/ Hot Shoe Adapter + 60" Westcott white-bounce/shoot-through umbrella.

Don't know if you can get those in the UK, at least if you're in the UK since nothing is showing at your location

As for a second flash, just look on the secondhand market as long as it can fit on a Pentax, Nikon or Canon you can use it in manual mode.

For you interest Westcott also make softboxes that fits on umbrella stand link

ps. for your second flash what about this one link
GN 38 (meters) at 35mm ISO100 is a lot, non of the other flashes beside the Pentax AF540FGZ is so strong.
The pentax is 39GN while the Metz 58 has 35GN, all the rest are around 30GN

Get a Cactus V4 they work very well and service is good.
link
Dutch shop link
I've no idea if any English shop has them

But your Metz 48 can work wireless without any of these things, it involves your build-in pop-up flash to trigger the Metz 48, you know that can be done right.

Great lucky photo!
the black and white always works well for portrait.
I like the dreamy looking one also but it's a but to saturated for my taste.