On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 11:45:02AM -0400, Adam Maas wrote: > The Sigma flashes have a well-earned reputation for being cheap junk. > They're both cheaply built and also very rarely actually fully > compatible with the flash protocol they claim to support.
That's good to know. > > Metz on the other hand makes superb kit. If I stick with Pentax, I may well need to find something to replace my AF540. I swear that I spend more time fighting that POS than I do with it operating correctly. Sometimes P-TTL works beautifully, sometimes I just get something about four stops underexposed. That, however, may be the camera, someone said that they tried a K-7 and where the K20 metered on the reflection of the flash the K-7 metered on the rest of the scene. Since I can't trust P-TTL to work properly, or may have other reasons to shoot in manual flash mode, I frequently want to. My AF-540 will not stay in manual mode. It'll work in manual for a while and will then spontaneously decide that what I really need is P-TTL. I even sent it in to be repaired. They replaced a bunch of the circuitry, but it still decides it knows better than me what I want. Another peeve is that there is no manual control over the in camera flash. I have studio strobes that can be optically triggered, but there seems to be no way of doing so without putting a little dumb external flash on my camera. It would be so simple to have a menu item to run the flash manually at full power down to 1/16 at 1/2 stop intervals. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
