Hi Tom,
>This is what I've heard. Supposedly it'll also do flash compensation on
>the other ZX bodies.
If the new flash does have a compensation control, then it is just enabling
a feature in the exposure system of the body (like Canon and Nikon). It is
the camera's exposure system that must control this as it "sees" the light,
the flash doesn't. The flash itself has no way of knowing when to turn off
and only follows the quench signal from the camera.
Pentax missed this gimmick with their Z-1p as a way to sell their AF500FTZ.
Because they put control of the feature directly on the body of the camera
so the flash compensation would work with and compatible TTL flash.
The only way it will work with the older ZX/MZ series cameras is if this
capability was built into them all along. That's possible, but then why did
Pentax make us wait 5 years to get a compatible flash?
To be fair, the AF500FTZ came out shortly after the original PZ-1 and quite
a bit before the Z-1p, so the only way to offer this capability without
designing a new flash was to put the controls for the feature on the body.
I quite like this approach and wish Pentax had carried it forward with the
MZ-S.
Bill
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