I always had a problem adjusting for wireless flash controller with *istD. I tried with the K10D yesterday and still wasn't happy. I just ordered those cheapy radio slave triggers to fire my pair of 360s to see if they do a better job. I've never been happy using the onboard flash for any reason (except to give me some AF assist). I'll report on how they work. For about $50 for the transmitter and two receivers, it seems like an affordable experiment.
Micah On Feb 9, 2007, at 3:16 AM, Jan van Wijk wrote: > 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
