On Nov 22, 2010, at 2:52 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > On 11/22/2010 7:03 AM, paul stenquist wrote: >> When shooting high ISO with a flash XTender at close range in high >> speed synch mode, i got a few gross overexposures. I'm talking three >> or four stops over. Now, I realize that I was shooting with a weird >> combination. Normally, I wouldn't use the Xtender in close quarters, >> but when it's mounted on the flash and a tight shot presents itself, >> it can happen. I've done this before with the K7 and K20 without that >> big a miss, but it was never at such a high ISO. (I was shooting at >> 1250.) Not overly concerned about this, but it seems that the P-TTL >> metering missed in this case. Paul > > I may be wrong, but it seems to me that you mentioned earlier that P-TLL > wasn't 100% reliable. Therefore, in general principle, it is not out of the > line here that even K-5 has its misses... > That's true, and it may be more the fault of the flash than the camera. I'm going to try this setup again and make sure my contacts are clean and secure. It seems as if the flash reverted to full manual on the occasion I described above. Paul
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