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Old 08-07-2008, 09:25 AM   #34
RiceHigh
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Originally Posted by spanky12 View Post
My daughter was taking pictures of a band, and when a friend saw she was using the cameras built in flash, he gave her his Nikon flash. It worked. I thought you had to use a Pentax specific flash for it to work. Whats the deal?
It will flash (via the hotshoe X-sync point - the central largest one), but will not meter / expose correctly unless the Nikon flash is in external Auto mode and co-incidently, the ISO speeds and aperture selected at the flash and the body are the same!
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