Re: K10D and Wireless P-TTL

2006-12-14 Thread Lawrence Kwan
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Patrick Genovese wrote: > Say for example you wanted to do contrast control flash wirelessly.. > Would it be possible to used the slave unit the main light and the > controller for fill in ? or vice versa. Yes, and you can dial in the Master:Slave ratio in the flash. You can

Re: K10D and Wireless P-TTL

2006-12-12 Thread Leon Altoff
Hi Patrick, The only Pentax D-SLR that does wireless from the camera's in built flash is the *istD. All others require another flash unit to be attached to control the other flash units. There are 3 modes of wireless P-TTL flash. Slave. Any flash that is to operated wirelessly needs to be set

Re: K10D and Wireless P-TTL

2006-12-12 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, David Savage wrote: > I can attest that the hot shoe adapter F won't let the flash pop up > filly (As stated in the AF-540 FGZ manual) Even if it did (eg Z1-p), it does not clumb on the hotshoe, so the flash is liable to lose contact with the shoe/make contact with hard sur

Re: K10D and Wireless P-TTL

2006-12-12 Thread Jan van Wijk
Hi Kostas, On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:37:12 + (GMT), Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: >> You can do that with The AF360FGZ, AF540FGZ and the >> builtin flash of the *istD, you can NOT do that (yet) with >> the builtin flash of the K10D! > >I seem to recall Ken's transaltion to suggest it is mutually e

Re: K10D and Wireless P-TTL

2006-12-12 Thread David Savage
On 12/12/06, Kostas Kavoussanakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK I just checked. I was wrong. It does use both on board flash & > > accessory flash when the hot shoe mounted unit is set to Contrast > > Control Sync. > > I thought we were talking wireless. That's it, I'm going to bed. :-) Read

Re: K10D and Wireless P-TTL

2006-12-12 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, David Savage wrote: > On 12/12/06, Kostas Kavoussanakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, David Savage wrote: >> >>> On 12/12/06, Patrick Genovese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've never used P-TTL so please be kind to me and forgive my ignorance on th

Re: K10D and Wireless P-TTL

2006-12-12 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Jan van Wijk wrote: > You can do that with The AF360FGZ, AF540FGZ and the > builtin flash of the *istD, you can NOT do that (yet) with > the builtin flash of the K10D! I seem to recall Ken's transaltion to suggest it is mutually exclusive with SR or sth. > I actually did so

Re: K10D and Wireless P-TTL

2006-12-12 Thread David Savage
On 12/12/06, Kostas Kavoussanakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, David Savage wrote: > > > On 12/12/06, Patrick Genovese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've never used P-TTL so please be kind to me and forgive my ignorance > >> on the subject. > >> > >> The literature seems to s

Re: K10D and Wireless P-TTL

2006-12-12 Thread Jan van Wijk
Hi Patrick, On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:50:44 +0100, Patrick Genovese wrote: >I've never used P-TTL so please be kind to me and forgive my ignorance >on the subject. Still learning myself :-) >The literature seems to suggest that to do wireless P-TTL you need a >flash unit acting as a controller and

Re: K10D and Wireless P-TTL

2006-12-12 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, David Savage wrote: > On 12/12/06, Patrick Genovese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've never used P-TTL so please be kind to me and forgive my ignorance >> on the subject. >> >> The literature seems to suggest that to do wireless P-TTL you need a >> flash unit acting as a cont

Re: K10D and Wireless P-TTL

2006-12-12 Thread David Savage
On 12/12/06, Patrick Genovese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never used P-TTL so please be kind to me and forgive my ignorance > on the subject. > > The literature seems to suggest that to do wireless P-TTL you need a > flash unit acting as a controller and a slave unit to provide the > illumina

K10D and Wireless P-TTL

2006-12-12 Thread Patrick Genovese
I've never used P-TTL so please be kind to me and forgive my ignorance on the subject. The literature seems to suggest that to do wireless P-TTL you need a flash unit acting as a controller and a slave unit to provide the illumination. Does this mean that the controller does not / can not be setu