Unfortunately there is nothing on page 180 to help with my problem, the flash was on P-TTL, I was shooting well within the coverage scale on the gun, the flash was charging promptly and the ready light displayed, the ISO on the camera was fixed at 100. as for distance they were mostly taken between 3-5 feet away.

Maybe my 360 has a fault?

Happy new year folks.

Well its about 16:00 GMT and I am finally coming round from last nights celebrations, despite my reluctance to take the K10D out to a drunken new year party the chance to play with my new toy was far too great, coupled with the AF360FGZ I got some excelent pics, though not without a few failures too, dont know if it was the batteries in the flash but I would get a run of poorly exposed shots despite the flash ready light been lit, at one point I discarded the 360 and used the cameras pop-up which turned out to be equally as good.
Has anyone else experienced similar problems with the 360 with continued use? I had the camera in AV and was varying the aperture between f5.6 and f8

Just a quick reminder;

Please check your camera batteries are fully charged before leaving the house.

My misgivings over the K10D not using AA's have revealed themselves to be true, I took my K10D out today for the very first time, hello flat battery....DOH!

Fortunately I had taken my istD along so was at least able to give my new Sigma a trial run.

Oh well, theres plenty more days in the year.

I'm not exaclty sure if count as been left handed, my brain doesn't really know what its doing.
I write left handed, use spoons left handed, do fiddly tasks left handed, use the hoover left handed (yes I am domesticated)
I eat right handed (apart from the spoon thing) I played the guitar right handed, I use my mouse right handed.
With everythin else i'm pretty much ambidextrous, but as for using a camera in my right hand I suppose it just came naturally simply because of the design, had I started my hobby with the previously mentioned Exakta then things may have been different, tho' humans are very adaptive, I think if a specific tool is designed for right handed people the lefties and misfits like me just adapt.

What gets me is the world is so geared up for right handed people so why does so much of it drive on the left???

Oh Happy Memories......

I grew up on that stuff (photographically speaking)

Not had much luck with Cobra, I think it was the D400 I had, just wouldnt work with any of my cameras, niether my Mz7 or 5n would recognise its existence, despite it having the current line up of pins for the hotshoe, I took it to a local second hand dealer who did a local flea market, he very kindly tried it on a couple of M series bodies (dont know which) and hey presto the camera knew it was there! I eventually sold it on ebay clearly stating the problem and sold it for use as a manual flash.

I also have a Sunpack 888? supposedly Pentax dedicated, my 5n thinks its wonderful, and yet again everything else doesnt know its there.

Bearing in mind the problems I have had with the AF360 I would say I was jinxed with flash, but my cheap little Centon ringflash works a trteat!

Tim

I'm happy that your getting that much light through the window, I poked my K10D out the window about 10am this morning and got a meter reading of 0.7sec at f5.6, Talk about suffering from SAD!

Oh well, tommorows forcast is "sunny intervals" how long those intervals will last remains to be seen.

I was going to post a picture of a Robin, but the exposure was that long he didn't look like a Robin anymore.

I agree with John, the f1.7 is an excelent bit of kit, and I know at least one member of this forum who was stupid enough to sell his on ebay, still looking for the KA equivalent to replace it.

The thing I love about this forum is the comments people leave and no-one takes offence, tremendous!

PS; Gwyn, stop drooling over Brians instrument.

Someone has far too much time on their hands, I wonder when he's going to finish it?