Edit: OK a correction for some reason I was in a fog last night when I posted the original post as I had previously been outside in daylight with the meter and K-3, the shutter speed was set to 1/160s and it was not reset as I stated at first. The flash intensity level was reset instead, sorry for my misstatement
I am still puzzled about why the K-3 would fire the flash ever other time when triggered by the IR remote and my K-50 would fire the flash every time when triggered by the remote.
Last night I wanted to get familiar with my newly acquired Sekonic L 308S-U flash meter so I set up my K-3 with a DA 35 f2.4 on a tripod with my Sigma EF 610 DG Super mounted on the hotshoe and got out my cheap little IR remote to trigger the flash. I set up the Sekonic for non cable flash metering and proceeded to set up the flash as well as the K-3 for manual flash useage. When I positioned myself in front of the camera at a distance of about 8 feet and triggered the IR remote..... no flash but the camera took a shot with a black photo on the monitor??? Hmmmmm.....so I triggered the IR Remote again and got a flash along with an over exposed photo as I expected to have the first time. I adjusted the shutter speed to the Sekonic recommended exposure and triggered the remote again...........and again I had a camera shot with no flash. I triggered the remote again and got a good exposure??? This behavior never happened before with my K-50 and I even got out the K-50 mounted the flash and each time I triggered the remote a flash and a properly exposed photo was the result. Then I remounted the flash to my K-3 and started getting proper exposures but I never figured out why everything worked the second time around.
My question is: Is there a proper sequence I am missing for mounting and turning on the flash and camera that I missed the first time I tried? In other words is there a "hand shake" sequence with the K-3 Sigma EF 610 DG Super combination for proper flash operation?
Puzzled
Larry
Last edited by Larrymc; 09-30-2016 at 04:06 AM.
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