----- Original Message ----- From: "wendy beard" Subject: Stupid Flash question
>I admit, I'm useless when it comes to using flash. I use it as little > as possible. When I do, I just stick the flash on the Canon and it all > magically works - even on the G9 (tho the flash is bigger than the > camera!) > I don't remember having any problems with the MZ-S and 360FGZ > That's the magic of E-TTL/P-TTL, I suppose > Anyway, I no longer have the 360FGZ and both the Canons are off for > repair and sticking a flash on the G9 is ridiculous - so I'm trying to > get the K10D working with an AF220T > Here comes the stupid question. > How do I know what settings to use? > My old, old agfatronic used to have a table of aperture vs asa vs > distance. All that's on the back of this flash is "control range > 0.7-5.5m" > It seems mighty powerful at close range. ISO 200 f8 1/180s and a > distance of approx 1.5m and it's way over-exposed > > Is it because TTL isn't supported on the K10D so the flash just fires > at full power all the time? Will it just be pure luck if I get a well > exposed shot with this combination? Analog TTL isn't supported on the K10, so you will have to use the AF220T as a plain auto flash, if possible. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
