Pentax got the idea from Minolta, who introduced their wireless flash system, complete with moronic channel selection, in 1992.
Given the peculiarities of the P-TTL wireless system, I halfway suspect it might be a licensed version of Minolta's ADI metered TTL system. The two work (And don't work) in very similar ways. -Adam On 1/10/08, Peter Loveday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Does the K10D have the wireless flash capability ... > > Yes with firmware updates and with 2 limitations: > > > * You can only chose channel nr 1 > > Well, you *can* choose other channels on the K10D, the same way as with the > *istD. > > Having said that, setting it is about the most convoluted and unintuitive > way imaginable: > > The camera picks up the wireless channel of a slave set to remote when its > mounted on the hot-shoe. So put the flash on the camera, set your flash to > Channel X and Slave mode, then enable wireless mode on the camera. It will > show Ch X (where it usually shows Ch 1), and will work just fine on that > channel. You then take the slave flash off the hotshoe and put it where you > actually want it... > > Whoever thought up this at Pentax should be shot.... (what would be wrong > with just using a thumbwheel to change channel while its showing "Ch 1" > after turning on wireless mode...) > > > * No HSS in wireless mode > > Indeed. > > Love, Light and Peace, > - Peter Loveday > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
