Most Pentax flashes (and some Pentax-dedicated ones of other brands) will tell the ME Super to set the 1/125 shutter speed automatically when the mode dial is on auto and the flash is ready. The manual 1/125 position on the ME Super is for flashes that don't set the shutter speed themselves and for a manual backup speed. It's also a good choice for advancing those first couple of frames at the beginning of a roll.
AFAIK, the camera will synch with a flash at all speeds, although of course at higher than 1/125 the frame will not be fully exposed when the flash goes off. For slow-speed flash synch, set the shutter speed in manual mode via the pushbuttons. A Pentax flash (AF160, AF280T, AF200T, etc.) may set the 1/125 speed by itself even when you're in manual mode, but there's a workaround: I don't have my ME Super here at work to check, but if it works like the Super Program, in manual mode, it will set the shutter speed to 1/125 only if the speed you had selected before turning the flash on was 1/250 or faster. If your manually selected speed was 1/125 or slower, you should get the flash ready signal, but the camera may keep the shutter speed where you had it. Joe > >Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 10:58:23 -0300 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: ME Super can do slow flash sync? > >Hi gang. >Reading ME Super user's manual, it seems the only way to use flash is to >use the 125/X sync position in mode dial. But I mounted a flash and put the >dial in Auto, and the flash fires no matter what speed the camera chooses. >My question is: the camera syncs properly? Obviously it will not with >higher than sync speeds, but with lower speeds? Or the flash fires out of >syncro? I would love to be able to do slow sync. >Regards > >AG >- - - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
