At 09:24 PM 12/3/01 +0800, you wrote: >To those of you with AF360 flash units.... Have you been able to decipher >the true meaning of the 4 meter distance limitation?
I ran some tests to see how far away from the camera the wireless flash could be and still fire. Outdoors, with clear distance between the MZ-S and the AF360, I was able to get to aout 12 meters before the flash no longer responded to the camera. Indoors, the flash would go off even when in another room, but needed to be more like the 4 meter distance. I tired setting the camera on a table next to a hallway wall, and then moved the flash to the room on the other side of the hall - so there were 2 walls between them. Even though they were within 3 meters, the wireless did not go off. This is obviously theoretical (what good is a flash in another room?) and I don;t know if TTL info would be passed back an forth correctly. But my guess is that the 4 meter distance is a conservative recommendation to assure proper functioning between the flash and the camera in most circumstances. It could probably be shorter or longer than that. I did one test with the remote flash 7 meters from the camera - when I get the film developed (late this week, unfortunately) we can see how that came out. - MCC - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Kalamazoo, MI [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - Photos: http://www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - 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 .
