At 04:31 14/03/01, you wrote:
Thanks for that John. It is firing off camera now. :-)
Yeah, I was pretty fortunate. A friend told me yesterday at lunch time he'd
seen it at one of the pawn brokers in Perth for $140. I raced out there
after work (got there just as they were closing the doors) and paid $130
for it. For those in the USA, at current exchange rates AUD $130 equals
about $1.37 USD :-)
There's an AF400FTZ in one of the Cash Converters here. They've had it for
over a year. It was $450, which is way too much, but it's now down to just
over $300. I've been waiting for it to get to about $250 so I can offer
them $200 for it. I don't think I'll bother now.
Cheers
>Well done, it's hard to find modern Pentax stuff cheap here!
>The manual for this flash is fairly large, as it has a lot of features - you
>would be best waiting for Kennedy's to come up with one rather than me (or
>anyone else) trying to explain it all.
>Basically, it fires up in TTL Autozoom mode with leading curtain sync - I
>generally set the sync switch to the second position, trailing curtain, for
>better effects - but note that this is only operative if your shutter
>speed is
>1/30 or less.
>The right hand position is for focus-assist beam only - no flash.
>Cycling the Mode button will move you between the modes, each of which is
>described on the LCD
>Cycling the Zoom modes is the same.
>The Light button only turns on the LCD backlight
>Test fire the flash on or off camera by pressing in the red Test light - you
>will need to push it right in.
>The power saving mode cuts in quite quickly, and the flash can be reactivated
>by simply switching it off and on again - there is also an automatic resume
>mode, but I can never remember what triggers it.
>If you use the flash with a ZX/MZ series camera and FA or FA* lens, it will
>automatically adjust to the focal length of the lens, which is also shown on
>the read-out. Not certain about other combinations - it can sometimes be a
>little inconsistent as to whether it reads the data from the lens or not!
Jon
Relax! Take life as it comes, you can't chase the sun, you can't race the wind
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