On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Brian Walters <apathy...@lyons-ryan.org> wrote: > > Quoting Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com>: > >> So, summary: AF540's may be electrically a bit fragile, and kinda >> pricey, but they are friggen' workhorses, and will stand up to heavy >> use. They lit up a concrete wall 12 feet high over an area at least 12 >> feet across, bright enough to be seen nicely at f/8. > > > > Good to hear. I don't have a 540 but my 360 survived a fall onto a > concrete floor recently and continued on as if nothing had happened. > > The only issue I have is that in manual mode with a manual-focus lens on > the camera, the manual zoom feature of the flash wants to reset itself after > every few shots. That was happening before the fall so maybe it's a feature > of electrical fragility as well.
It shouldn't be doing that. I don't think mine do, but I rarely use them on-camera, and never with a manual lens, so I wouldn't normally encounter this situation. -- -bmw -- 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.
