In my experience, I can't get any significant FPS speed with just the flash attached. If the flash is boosted with the external battery pack, the camera gains some FPS speed. I think the camera is waiting for the flash. On Dec 17, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Mark C wrote:
> I have a hankering to get back into photographing birds, so I went out today > with the K5, a new (for me) Tokina 400 f5.6 (I replaced my original, fungus > infested Tokina) and an AF360FGZ flash on a flip bracket. I set the camera to > aperture priority and the flash to slow synch. For some reason, the fastest > FPS rate I could get was (my guess) about 2 FPS. At first I thought that the > camera was waiting for the flash to recycle, but it wasn't - it just chugged > along at the slow FPS. The same thing happened in aperture priority and > standard synch - slow FPS. In manual mode, I'd get the usual fast burst of > FPS, with the flash discharging once or twice and then the camera just > blasting along till the flash recycled. > > Is this normal behavior? It was jarring to suddenly be working in slo-mo.... > > Mark C. > > > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
