Originally posted by Bulldogface But how about even simplier flashes, like those old one-pin flashes with their own photocell on board, and setting M/red/blue (Tristar 300AZ being on my disposal, for ex.).
As others have stated already, it is impossible to control the power of one-pin flashes.
The V6 needs either one of the directly supported multi-pin models, or a multi-pin model that supports analogue TTL.
The majority of flashes supporting TTL are supported, but there are a some exceptions. Here's a (naturally incomplete)
list of profiling successes and failures for the V6.
Originally posted by airbass First of all: V6 can not control every TTL flash for Pentax, Canon, Nikon or Olympus. For example it doesn't work as a controller with Pentax AF500FTZ despite the fact that it is TTL (I checked it personally, unfortunately).
I'm surprised that the AF500FTZ doesn't cooperate.
What happened when you tried to profile it?
Originally posted by Bulldogface yes, but than if i can only fire old flashes, I'll be probably just as good off with v5, which can be triggered by v6.
That's correct, except that the V5 do not feature groups. There is a "poor man's group control" through the multi-channel approach, but that only works among V5s not in conjunction with V6s. I find groups very handy to select certain lights in and out in various combinations and the V5 can only provide part of that.
Originally posted by Bulldogface anyway, my confusion comes from their statement, that v6 can learn almost any given flash.
Well, the statement is true, but there are prerequisites (the flash must be for a certain system like Canon, Nikon, Pentax,, Olympus, etc. and must support analogue TTL) and a few exceptions (apparently some TTL flashes speak a slightly different protocol).