And here's Don's home made Flashbender in action: link

My first flash was the Pentax 360, with full PTTL, wireless etc. When I realised all I really wanted to do was take a few bounce flash shots indoors, I realised I could do this with a more basic unit perfectly well, and sold the 360 to help fuel my LBA! I was lucky as I got my first flash at a knock-down price, but a lot of people don't realise how easy it is to use manual flash, and I wonder how many people use more advanced flashes to their full potential. Flash enthusiasts will do, of course.

http://www.botzilla.com/photo/strobeVolts.html

FGD30DX is listed as 3-6v which is fine.

A slightly different model, FGD30, has been measured at 200v though!

Cobra 700AF is one I can personally vouch for, listed as 4v.

No. 3!

One for lolcats if someone can think up a caption. Don?

Ah, I see you now. I had always seen your avatar as just a scrunched up bit of paper with glasses drawn on in pencil!

With bounce flash, the distance between camera and subject doesn't matter, and the distance from flash to ceiling to subject doesn't change appreciably (if you are in one room). Therefore I use M on both and take advantage of the flash's max power. I think (from memory) the AF280T gives me around f5.6 at ISO 200, in my living room. At that ISO you can afford to underexpose the odd shot.

Don's idea sounds brilliant, and presume you could do something similar with a bunch of old manual flashes and cheap optical slaves?

Don't get your hopes up F.S.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r18974538-Pentax-K1-photos

(From 2007).

The Q looks okay but it's not going to set the world on fire at that price. I'd pay a small premium for being able to use interchangeable lenses, over a compact with similar IQ, but perhaps not £200 odd more.

The old Pentax AF280T or something like the Cobra 480AF have a swivel head. Manual only, but once you've got your exposure right, you probably won't need to make any changes as the bounced light is fairly even. And you can experiment beforehand in a similar room.

Precisely what I thought when I read your joke!

Come to think of it, i'd have to resort to a 'painting with light' approach these days... But yes if they could get the gps in with no cost or battery life penalty, why not.