Where do you live, Tyr? I have a Super A that isn't broken, and it saddens me to see your sad signature.

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As long as it's not Benny Hill!

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Pentax are amazing.

The photographic community is awash with speculation about what is happening, so in the hope of finding some enlightenment from Pentax themselves, I looked at the News section of the Pentax Japan website.

And there it is. An announcement today of a new endoscope.

Mind you, could be useful for some of the people on DPReview.

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For use off-camera, I just place the flash on the back of a chair or a table, or anywhere. Holding it doesn't usually get it far enough away from the camera.

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But it is in fact working properly. The meter can do do more than measure the light coming through the lens.

Diffusing the flash would probably help.

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I think that what people overlook is that the light from a flashgun is extremely intense. You wouldn't dream of trying to take a picture with the flashgun pointing at the lens, but that is effectively what happens when you have a good reflective surface.

In the picture, light from these reflections appears as a blown-out highlight. Try stopping down the lens until the highlights are not blown out. You'll probably find you are on f256 at 1/20,000 sec shutter speed.

(That's assuming you have a K1D, with one of the new landscape lenses.)

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To me it looks as though the flash didn't fire on the first shot, but it's hard to tell from small pictures.

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P-TTL is very good most of the time, but you have to beware of highly reflective items in the frame. When a bright light (the flash) bounces off them, it can throw out the metering in a big way.

Mirrors, polished surfaces, anything highly reflective, can make a huge difference.

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You believe there will be a 24x36 sensor from Pentax because you WANT to believe it, not because you have weighed up the arguments for and against.

If you want your opinions to be taken seriously, you should base them on facts and logic, rather than wishful thinking.


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Twenty nine Russians holed up in a cave in Siberia believe that the world will end in May.

GW Bush believes the world was created three thousand years ago.

The Yaohnanen tribe of Vanuatu believe that Prince Philip is a god.

These are all just opinions, too.

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