Pentax and Minolta shared a few other ideas, such as power zoom lenses and pop-up flashes. Their engineers must have been very friendly...
Rick --- Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- 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.
