Hello! I'm going to photograph my sister college graduation ceremony tomorrow and have a problem and some questions regarding the gear. I've borrowed from a friend a Sigma 75-300 zoom to extend my focal range (I only have 135) and this seems to work perfecly. But I have a problem with the flash I've also borrowed from him. It's a Metz 54MZ-3 unit equipped with SCA3702 hot shoe adapter (Pentax dedicated). The camera (MZ-M) doesn't notice that the flash is mounted. When set to A it set long shutter speeds as if there was no flash. But flash fires anyway. What can be wrong? My friend told me that this hot shoe adapter is for the whole MZ range (it works perfectly with his MZ-7) and he didn't had a clue what this could mean. I don't have the manual for the adapter so can't confirm that this is the correct adapter. I only have a pdf downloaded for the flash itself but it doesn't say anything about that. I guess it might be related only to the hot-shoe adapter so maybe someone did use such a combo and experienced similiar problems and solved it???
If I don't find an aswer I would have to remember to use the 1/100th-X speed and have no ready confirmation in the viewfinder which doesn't seem all that bad but the thing keeps bothering me. Maciej - 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 .
