On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:38:42 +0100, Bojidar Dimitrov wrote: >Hi Leon, > >Brendan was asking about connecting two flashes to each other DIRECTLY, >i.e. one cord runs from the 5p connector of one flash to the 5p >connector of the second flash.
You can do it that way, but you have to be careful of the hotshoe connector on the flash that is off camera, so I always use adaptors on the bottom. Of course if I didn't own the adaptors (I managed to find quite a few going cheap with flashes which is why I have so many - the full set of 5p accessories in fact) I'd connect 2 flashes without the connectors and insulate the hotshoe contacts. >> Yes it will. The 5p system is meant for daisy chaining just like >> that. I quite often use 2 in a chain and have used up to 4 and >> they work fine TTL. > >How can you daisy-chain 4 flashes when each flash has onyl one 5p >connector? You use the hotshoe on the bottom of the flash like this Camera to AF400FTZ mounted on hotshoe out via 5p connector on flash to AF240FT hotshoe via Off camera flash adaptor F out via 5p socket on flash to another AF240FT the same way and then into a Sigma EF430 via a hotshoe adaptor F that has had it's bottom fins removed so it doesn't short out on the stand holding the flash (this is easy to do if you have a small phillips head screwdriver). Leon http://www.bluering.org.au http://www.bluering.org.au/leon - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
