Yes it would achieve much the same result. The flash slave would respond to the light from the onboard flash whereas the wireless one would do it, well.., wirelessly!

The slave is small and doesn't need a battery to make it work (certainly the one I have doesn't) whereas the wireless one will need batteries in both the transmitter and receiver. When I purchased my flash slave it would have been illegal to use such a radio frequency wireless trigger. Think I only paid a couple of pounds for my one so guess Hama are adding quite a mark up on that one. There isn't much in them.

John

It does! See page 7 of the manual.
It would actually work well in manual mode with one of those cheap flash slave devices triggered from the onboard flash. You'd have to measure the flash to subject distance to work out the exposure though!

John

That looks a useful function on both the Q and K-01 and it isn't on the K-5 without the use of third party software.

Maybe that April 1st K-3 has it.

John

PS That's the weather photos, not the amount of rain we've been having!

John

Here's where you can talk about it if you wish!

I see a similar theme was used some time ago but given we seem to have had so much weather of late it might give scope to put those WR bodies and lenses to good use! The photos just need to have a weather theme be it darkskies (oh, sorry ) or sun soaked beaches (some hope here but maybe elsewhere!) - Choose your own interpretation of the theme and whether your weather photo is in colour or black and white.

All entries to be taken between now and 18.00 BST Wed 9th May with Pentax or Samsung equivalents. Please supply EXIF data for your image.

As always, good luck!

John

Gosh

Thanks for that and well done to everyone else who entered and to Neil (darkskies) for coming up with the theme and for his comments. It is never easy to judge such different photographs. It's a shame there weren't more entries but I guess the weather hasn't helped much in the last fortnight. On Sunday afternoon the sun came out for a while so went round trying a few shots. My intended one just didn't work out at all which was of the old Scarborough Jail. Another try was getting a perspective shot of back to back terraces - that was better. Then I thought - the Castle! I took that then on the way back passed the church which had interesting back-lighting. It didn't work as a single exposure - all soot and whitewash - so tried the multi 5 exposure for HDR and hey presto. Having such wonderful scenery to choose from helps too. I think that if I had been in a larger town or city I would have gone for some futuristic building shots.

Re my pic, I agree about the lens flare. I wasn't sure about it either; but some go to the trouble of adding it in in PP for effect. Given its position over the tower I thought of it as perhaps 'The Light of the Lord!' I did think about cloning it out at one time though. Regarding where it looks to be sloping to the left, that wall edges a narrow roadway which is part of a steep decent to the harbour below. Hopefully the church tower isn't leaning over! I sent the picture in for the Look North news bulletin yesterday but alas they chose others instead.

I believe I now have to dream up a new theme for next time. I'll have a look at the themes used previously so I don't repeat a recent one (I'm still new to going in for these) and post it shortly.

Thanks again to all,

John

Flash Slave

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They look just fine to me Alan, well done. I think I'd have needed even more persuading to go into the water; much colder than the comfy nest!

Interesting that you thought the cropped images without a converter were better than those with. Guess it's less glass and allows a faster exposure/smaller aperture.

John

Do you know I hadn't even realised it did do that! It does it on both delayed action and mirror up. Seems a bit daft, I'd say it is a programming oversight. The camera's 'take a shot' sub-routine goes back too far in the sequence. It needs to memorise the original exposure and keep the flipping mirror flipped up 'til it's all done! It could even do it quicker than it does now if it did.

John