On Aug 11, 2010, at 6:33 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > Larry, what you describe is not how P-TTL works. > You would have to try hard to notice the pre-flash of the P-TTL.
That has been my experience. > THe interval between the pre-flash and the flash is just at > the border of what a human eye can resolve. > > What you describe sounds like a red-eye-reduction mode. That was it. I guess that it had gotten accidentally set in the camera. > But even for that, - the first "short wait" is strange > (unless it's due to focusing or due to the battery still charging up > for the pop-up flash, if the shot happened too soon after you popped it > up). No pop-up, it was with the AF540. > > > Igor > > > Wed Aug 11 18:58:27 CDT 2010 > Larry Colen wrote: > >> Rather than my usual habit of using the flash in manual mode, I was >> using it in TTL, and I noticed that there was what seemed like a two >> second shutter lag. Press shutter, short wait, flash, long wait, >> click/flash. Is this normal? I've never noticed such a long delay >> between the first and second flashes before. The batteries weren't >> desperately low, but they weren't completely fresh either. > > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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.
