That would be true with old flash units more than a couple of generations
old. But the newer units don't have this problem. The trigger and ground
contacts all line up OK, and the data signaling, if not on the same pins, is
also not at a level that will hurt anything. You just lose some of the bells
and whistles that the flash is capable of with its intended camera system.
The AF500FTZ does not have a sensor on the flash so, if you use it with
other brands of cameras other than Pentax, you have to know its guide number
for a full power flash in order to set the camera's aperture correctly for
the distance involved.
I'm not suggesting that anyone should use old high trigger voltage flashes
with modern, all electronic, digitally controlled cameras. I'm saying that
the Nikon SB28 can be used by lots of cameras that are not Nikons. You just
won't get the TTL flash features.
Feel free to disregard everything I tell you, if you want to.
Len (A Pentax and Nikon system user)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarosław Brzeziński [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 5:40 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Klum & Pentax (SB28 flash with Pentax Camera(s))
>
>
> For safety reasons (theoretically putting a flash dedicated
> for another system on your
> camera may ruin the electronics of either the flash or the
> camera) it is a good idea to
> put tape on dedicated contacts in the camera's hot shoe and
> only leave out the X-synch
> contact exposed
>
> "Paris, Leonard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napisał / wrote:
>
> > Perhaps he uses the SB28 with his Nikon F5. It can be used
> with the other
> > cameras but just not TTL. The SB28 has
> > a sensor on the flash unit so that auto flash may be used on old and
> > off-brand cameras as well as TTL with Nikon cameras.
> >
> > Len
> > ---
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Otis Wright, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 7:20 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: Klum & Pentax (SB28 flash with Pentax Camera(s))
> > >
> > >
> > > As I read the equipment list, this list suggests SB28 flash
> > > can be used
> > > with LX/Z1-P/PZ-1p. Is this correct? Anyone have
> experience using
> > > SB28 with Pentax cameras?
> > >
> > > Otis Wright
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