On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:18:37 -0800 (PST), Jack Davis wrote: >The on-board flash must pre-flash, as I understand it, >to convey needed settings to the off camera flash.
Yes, exactly >When the on-board is set as a "controller" it should fire out of >sink to avoid affecting the picture. >Do I misunderstand? No, that is how it works. As a 'controller' it should only issue the 'pre-flash', which as the name implies, is fired BEFORE the shutter is open ... That is hard to detect though, you can only see it in the images (if the flash is reflected for instance) or perhaps in very long exposures (1 sec or so) but I did not test that ... Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
