No, no I didn't. I apologize.

I will never understand some people! The OP feels the K20 has better ergonomics than the K5/k7? That's lunacy! haha.

For me, this is like when I heard those news anchors that claimed Mr Rogers(From the old children's tv show) was "evil" because he told children that "You are all special" (That's apparently socialist thinking. Therefore, bad). I just don't understand how anyone could have that point of view! It's Bizarro world! Everything's inverted.

Does holding a hot pan feel good to you too? I kid, I kid.

Wow, that's a brave plan. I sure hop they can pull that off! I'm excited to see where this goes for Pentax.

Thanks for the replies so far. For some reason, I can now use 1/180th, but I don't know what I changed to cause that...

And the trick you're describing hefty, has never worked for me. This is what happens:
1. With the flash and camera separate, I turn both on.
2. I set both to manual.
3. I mount the flash on the camera.
4. But the moment I touch the shutter release, the flash goes into PTTL.

How am I screwing this up, I wonder?

I'm out in the woods right now shooting promotional stills for a small movie being filmed, and I'm miles from civilization. (good thing for internet-enabled phones!)

When I mount my AF360 onto my k5, it does two odd things ; It will not let me set my shutter faster than 1/90th, no matter what I try, AND it will not let me leave PTTL mode. The camera is in manual, so why would I want the flash in Pttl? And where did my 1/180th sync speed go?

What is going on with this thing? Any ideas?

Ah ha! I figured out why my catch-in wasn't working.

I like to use only my thumb AF button for focus, and so I normally disable the regular shutter from activating focus. And apparently for catch-in to work, I must be using the shutter button for focus.

Well I wish it weren't that way, but ok. At least I've got it figured out.

Thanks for the help!

Ah. I see the hexagon now when I attach my 50-135. I've never looked for that because I only look at the red focus-confirmation square when I shoot.

Anyway, if I mount a manual lens and try it, the green hexagon never lights up.

Oi! What's going on here.

Thanks for the advice so far, but I have to ask. Green hexagon? I've never seen that. But I am using an aftermarket focus screen, if that has anything to do with it.

And I'm not starting in focus at all. I can be 10 feet out of focus on a subject 3 feet away from me and it fires anyway.

Please don't tell me something's broken!

EDIT: Do Pentax cameras have a toggle for Frames-per-second-priority versus focus-priority? I know some cameras do, but I can't find that in the options here.

Yes, I have it on AFS. I can make it work with the K5 we have at work when I put our (broken) Pentax 16-50 on it. The AF stopped working, but with catch-in, it works again.

So I've done it before, but I can't do it now.

I must be dense, but I can not make this work. Here's what I'm trying:

•The K7 with both the Asahi 50mm f1.4 and the Rokinon 85mm f1.4.

•I'm trying both with and without tinfoil over the contacts

•I have the camera set center point, single focus, and catch-in activated in the camera's C menu.

But I press the shutter and the photo takes, whether I'm in focus or not.

What setting am I missing? I would love to make these two old lenses useful to me on the job. As it is now, I can never use them for anything practical (I shoot mostly moving people).