It's very easy to sort out the range issues and sync speed with the cactus aerial mod - solver a 6 inch bit of wire onto the board - I get about 100m range at 1/180s with this 2 minute mod.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/discuss/72157602622255547/

> The only way to use the Metz 48 AF-1 'intelligent' wirelessly is by controlling it with a Metz 58 AF-1.

Is that correct and does it mean you cannot control the 48 from the onboard flash? That's a shame if it is and the Metz site seems to imply differently.

From the Metz site it says
"The Metz 48 AF-1 is also fully compatible with sophisticated flash exposure techniques such as fast-shutter synchronisation, wireless flash using its slave function with either a Metz 58AF-1 as a master or with the camera manufacturers own flash master."

Cheers Matt.

It's a brilliant looking flash for my needs. Maybe I'll give in and finally buy a flash unit which does all those modern whizz bang things like p-ttl and hispeed sync!!

I don't suppose you remember what the on/off switch marked "find auto check" does on the hotshoe part.



Rob.

Hi there,


Just wondered if anyone has this flash unit. I've just bought one on ebay but there are no instructions with it.


Cheers


Rob.

I'm certainly not disappointed with the strobist and I think it's an amazing website. For a layman like me, I think there's tons of information there especially if you follow the very thorough lighting 102 course.

There's lots more info for Uk users on kit etc.. on the strobist forum on flickr.

If you set the Pentax to manual mode, you lose the preflash anyway. Or why not simply buy a 6 optical slave cube from ebay which ignores the preflash or if you really want no on-board to contribute, but an infra red flash flash from 7day shop for about 17 quid.


Cheers


Rob.

Thanks for this info guys. This is amazing info and I thought I'd read my K10d manual cover to cover! I wish I hadn't bought that ND8 filter a couple of weeks back now!

I bought the v2s from Gadget Infinity after trying the optical slave/IR transmitter route. I think they are excellent value for money and even better after the addition of an aerial.

The instructions are here - http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/discuss/72157594463784267/

Thanks Matt, that's very helpful but my question was specifically about the Metz 48 which seems to be very much in favour.

The manual on the pentax flashes is very thorough and I was aware I could set this manually, however the Metz manual is not as detailed and it has no mention of being able to set the apperture/iso in auto mode manually.

Does the flash to subject and camera to subject matter apply if I'm trying to illuminate a specific object rather than the whole scene? So I would set the camera at say F5.6, set the shutter speed for a nice sky and then fire the flash at the subject using the auto setting at F5.6.

I realise I've hijacked my own thread here going a bit off subject so ifanyone has the Metz flash, then I'd appreciate it if you could help.

Hi guys,


I'm thinking of purchasing this flash unit and I wonder if someone can help with my query. I'm currently using auto flashes which expose correctly for f5.6 at ISO 100.

When the flash is set to auto mode, can you select the aperture/iso manually on the flash? I would like to use the flash unit off camera with radio triggers so the flash unit wouldn't be able to get it's settings from the camera.


Cheers


Rob.