Yes David, I have a Flash bender kind of thing or a Gary Fong. My Main problem in the past has been getting consistent results. Quite a lot of the time images are massively over exposed. So much so that I have no confidence in my flash. Thus having to check every image to see if it is correctly exposed. I thought the P-ttl system took care of that ?

After just reading a little Nigel's piece on Pentax flash. I think I may have been wrongly setting my sync speed to 1/180th and letting AV mode control the aperture. I've just be trying it in "P" mode.. A mode Ive never used before if im honest. But while not maybe giving the highest quality. It does seem a lot more consistant.

Just seen his post. Many thanks for the nudge...

I've been asked on Saturday evening to take some family group shots. At a family get together. The group will be approx 30 people and then some smaller ones of 6 people. Now. I'm going to use my K5ii + 540FGz. So though accomplished in off camera flash with studio lighting. I've never used my flash on camera.. So with this in mind. What are your recommended Camera and flash settings. I'm hoping that I can get away with simply flash sync speed and P-TTL.
What would you recommend I do ?

A very good set 1 & 6 would be my personal favourites....

Where are the sample images.... As someone who is looking for a new Pentax camera, and very much into low light music photography. I would be keen to see the results. Not convinced the K3ii is so much of an improvement over the K3. Full frame is looking further and further away....

Very nice set of images

Cant help with elements software. When I upgraded to windows 10 from 8.1. Everything was fine in photoshop CC except for the Liquify tool. which now dosnt work at all..

The K5 can take any size of SD card.. But anything with a transfer speed greater than 85mb/sec would be pointless as that would be above the cameras transfer rate.

Precisely my dilemma. I want to upgrade my K7 to a k3 variant. I cant for the life of me decide which one.!! I wanted to get a 24MP unit as I do a lot of distance telephoto work so I will benefit from better crops. I dont use the inbuilt flash much.But couldnt really see me getting a unit without one. So K3 being cheaper seemed the logical choice. But then the improved AF and shake reduction systems are a real plus. I am not interested in GPS whatsoever. But Astrotracer, Yes Id have a dabble with that. And also the K3ii will have a better market longevity... Special offers on the K3 only until the end of the month and I still cant decide....

Great stuff Nige... Please let us know when we can get hold of the completed works. I would be truly interested, As an owner of the K7 and 540. I have struggled with the combination it has to be said. Though I'm certainly not ruling out user error... Well done..