Re: MZ-S and flashes

2006-01-03 Thread Carlos Royo
Margus Männik wrote: So, without using RTF there's no wireless sender capability ? Is this wirelessness OPTICAL ??? I understood, that synchronizing between body and 360FGZ goes over radio channel... You need a wireless controller (master) flash. It can be or the RTF, or another

Re: MZ-S and flashes

2006-01-02 Thread Margus Männik
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Jack Davis wrote: There is an available Pentax function offering an option wherein the built-in flash can either act only as a trigger for the 360 or be allowed to contribute to the exposure. If the RTF needs to be up for the trigger, then

Re: MZ-S and flashes

2006-01-02 Thread Jack Davis
Yes, optical, but even if the built-in flash is used only as a trigger, it still flashes (out of sync) to convey exposure information to the meter. Jack --- Margus Männik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Jack Davis wrote: There is an available

MZ-S and flashes

2005-12-30 Thread Margus Männik
Hi, is it possible to use wireless and normal flashes together with MZ-S? Lets say, that I want to put 500FTZ to camera hotshoe and wireless 360FGZ somewhere away. Or will the MZ-Sin wireless flash mode control ONLY wireless flash and forget about hotshoe? BR, Margus

Re: MZ-S and flashes

2005-12-30 Thread Jack Davis
or be allowed to contribute to the exposure. Jack --- Margus Männik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is it possible to use wireless and normal flashes together with MZ-S? Lets say, that I want to put 500FTZ to camera hotshoe and wireless 360FGZ somewhere away. Or will the MZ-Sin wireless flash mode

Re: MZ-S and flashes

2005-12-30 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Jack Davis wrote: There is an available Pentax function offering an option wherein the built-in flash can either act only as a trigger for the 360 or be allowed to contribute to the exposure. If the RTF needs to be up for the trigger, then you have a (surpassable)

Re: MZ-S and flashes: a lost SF/PZ design feature

2005-12-30 Thread Rick Womer
One of the best features of the SF/PZ series of bodies was the offset flash shoe. Many, many times I have bounced the external flash and used the built-in flash for fill (their contrast control flash feature). It also put the subject's shadow from a direct external flash in the same appealing

Re: MZ-S and flashes

2005-12-30 Thread Jack Davis
True, but a mute point. The 500 will not trigger the 360 wirelessly. Only the on-board flash has that capability. Jack --- Kostas Kavoussanakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Jack Davis wrote: There is an available Pentax function offering an option wherein the built-in