On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:42:06PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: > I don't think it's possible to "repair" it so it won't do that. My > experience with the AF-540 is it will stay in whatever mode you set it > in until it powers itself down to save the batteries.
Nope, it'll pop out of manual exposure at a whim. Sometimes it won't let me set into manual. > > When it powers up again it reverts to P-TTL and I think that's the way > Pentax designed it. > > >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. > > I wonder if setting the flash compensation for the built in flash to > -2EV and fitting a small deflector to bounce it up to the ceiling would > work? as has been discussed, you still have the preflash. -- 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.
