On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Larry Colen <lrc at red4est.com> wrote: > > On Dec 22, 2012, at 9:31 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: > >> Pentax's view: Real photographers use manual flash. > > Nope, Pentax's view is that photographers shoot in manual light or use > studio flash. My AF-540 won't freaking stay in manual mode for any > predictable amount of time. And yes I've set all the configuration > bits on it so it doesn't turn off. > > It has a new stunt. You know how the vertical angle of the head can > be set, and you press the button on the side to change the angle? > It no longer permanently clicks in. It has some sort of a detent, but > you don't have to bother pressing the grey button on the side of the > head to readjust it. > > As soon as I can afford it, I'm buying a Metz. >
I've had the same two issues: 1. AF-540 would not stay in the manual mode after being powered off. IIRC, in order to use it in the manual mode, one needs to switch the camera to the "M" mode, or something like that... 2. The one I had also came with the defective tilt control: Sometimes It was hard to get it out of thelooking forward position, - because the button on the side was stuck and not releasing the lock. I returned it within 30 days and got the Metz. In the past year, 40-50% of time, I 've been shotting with that Metz in "A" mode (the reast being P-TTL), especially when at home and shooting with the light bouncing of the ceiling or the back wall. It does the work reasonably well. My biggest compaint about the Metz is the bad ergonomics of controls: to switch between modes, or two enable/disable the secondary small flash, one has to go to the menu and click a few times. I wish there were buttons/switches for that as it is done in P-AF-540. Igor -- 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.
