P.J. Alling wrote:
You should always try out your equipment before doing anything important
to avoid just such embarrassments.
You're right, I should. I don't know why it didn't occur to me that the
flash that works just fine with K-5s and K-3s might not work with a K-1.
I don't use it that often. Today was the second time I tried to use the
combination, the first was a few weeks ago and I was trying to use it as
fill doing an outdoors photo shoot, so I just put it in manual. Today I
was trying to photograph the puddles in my downstairs to show my
contractor where they are coming from. The weird thing is that it *sort
of* works. Sometimes the flash will fire in P-TTL, and sometimes not.
It acts like dirty contacts. But only in P-ttl, in manual, etc. the
flash works fine.
The google monster made me realize that I wasn't the only one with this
problem.
A friend didn't take that advice and when demonstrating a jet turbine
powered electric generator had it violently explode during the
demonstration. It was embarrassing to the tune of about 2 million dollars.
Not that I'm suggesting that you experienced that level of
embarrassment, but it's a cautionary tail, and it's pretty funny, /now/,
Nope, not even close.
Thank goodness.
And, as I also mentioned it turns out that they only have the firmware
updates for Windows, not for Mac or Linux. Grumble.
On 10/16/2016 8:16 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
My metz flash would not work in p-ttl with the K-1. It turns out that
it needs a software upgrade:
http://www.metz-mecatech.de/en/lighting/firmware-download-flash-units/mecablitz-58-af-2-digital/pentax.html
Just so that other people don't find this out in the middle of a shoot
like I did.
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