I have an AF280T collecting dust. $30+shipping and its yours. On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 6:26 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems that when I'm not actually breaking my equipment, it's breaking > itself. > > I was using the AF200T with my digital cameras, and been pretty happy with > the results. Sure it's not P-TTL, but as far as it goes, having it's own > sensor, the fact that it actually sets the recommended f stop and shutter > speed when the camera is in program mode with an A class or later lens, was > convenient. > > It also worked well with K/M lenses though it obviously loses even the small > amount of automation supported with modern digital interface cameras. > > Within it's limited parameters it gave good exposures, is compact, and now > it's broken. It just stopped firing, either when mounted to the camera or > when the test button is pressed. Based on that I'm pretty sure that I know > what's wrong, it has a blown secondary capacitor. > > It would probably be an easy fix, if I had a schematic, but finding the part > without one wouldn't be cost effective, let alone the effort involved, for a > flash I could probably replace for $10. Worse it would probably cost more > than that to order the capacitor. > > Sometimes I miss Radio Shack. > > -- > America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. > America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please. > - P.J. O'Rourke > > > -- > 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.
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