I thought the current adapter is the SAC3703? On my 40MZ-2 TTL didn't work very well, but automatic did work very well. The ISO and aperture were transmitted to the 40MZ-2, so it was easy to work with.
On Sunday 07 January 2007 21:48, Thibouille wrote: > Yeah I know well I will try to do as simple as possible but since the > subject is not, please be kind with me... > > Speaking about external flashes only (not RTF one). > > ist-D and ist-DS do support TTL (although with the D it really is not > very reliable) > all others DSLRs do NOT support TTL. > > In all the case, all DSLRs support P-TTL. > > Now the trick is... Metz has yet to produce an adapter which provides > P-TTL support to their very good flashes which means that... even the > most advanced Metz flash can at this time only work in neither TTL nor > PTTL with Pentax DSLRs except ist-D and DS with which they will work > in TTL mode. > > So in a word you're stuck with Auto and manual mode. They * should * > work but... in read a couple times that 3702 has a couple problems in > A mode with DSLRs... Howver 3701 has no problem. > > Of course Metz coming with a proper adapter would be a nice solution > but for the time being... we are ... stuck shall I say :( > > Hope you see now why this stuff is complicated ... but Metz is right > with their specifications... > > -- > > Thibault Massart aka Thibouille > ---------------------- > *ist-D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... -- Frits Wüthrich -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
