Some rich and deep tones, great skies and powerful foregrounds, make a winning combination here!

I'm assuming you can fit a fairly standard filter holder onto that lens Gareth?

Excellent clarity and colour, with the amazing creatures shown nicely within their environment. (we usually see just a green blurry background, more in the style of a close up portrait .... yours here are more a kind of "environmental portrait", and very interesting as a result).

No, herd is correct I believe.

OK, I've looked at the Firmware Release notes :

RF60 …. You need Firmware Version 2.05

V6 ….. You need Firmware Version 2.1.001


As you said above Stan, you already have the correct version in the trigger. Its just the RF60 flash that is wrong.


The Release Notes do not explain the split between the two firmware types, nor do they explain the lack of cross compatibility between the two types (XTTL & Multi-Brand), so confusion is almost inevitable without some advice from users who post on the forums.

Hi Stan, have you removed the V6 from the RF60? You only need one V6 as transmitter on the camera. A trigger on the hotshoe of the RF60 will interfere with correct triggering from the transmitter.

I will check the Cactus site now regarding firmware but I believe the A03 version is not correct. I'll come back soon with the correct versions to have installed.

Hi Stan, you should not attach a V6 to the RF60 flash, the flash uses it's inbult transceiver.

I'm still not totally sure which triggers Stan has, V6 or V6II ..... The V6 uses generic "multi brand" firmware, and the V6II can use that or the Pentax specific XTTL version.

So far Stan has referred to " V6" ......

Hi Stan it's not a simple system at all, so stick with it, I'm sure we can sort out the problems between us all.

You mentioned "remotes" ..... Plural. The RF60 flash has the receiver built in, so you only need one V6 on the camera, as Chris said in Tx mode. No V6 receivers are required. The channel and group is set directly on the RF60 flash.

Also don't worry about the camera flash modes .... They have no significance when using triggers. The only thing to be wary of on the camera is not to exceed 1/180th sec (this assumes you are using the older V6, not the V6II.

Beautiful smooth green backgrounds make your dragonflies pop out of the images!

I think the sight of it creeping out of the bushes straight for them induces a form of bug hypnosis, and that's why they don't buzz off. Or Derek must be humming a magic chant as he approaches..