[tjburns1]

I'm having some difficulties and I'm assuming I'm making a dumb mistake. With the flash mounted on the hot shoe and the camera in automatic, the flash fires every time. When I turn to manual, the flash will not fire. What am I missing?

---------- Post added 12-22-14 at 10:02 PM ----------

So I'm not sure what's going on, but I don't think its the flash, which would be my first guess, given it's a Yongnuo. It has been firing consistently in all modes but manual. Then out of the blue it starts firing in M. Problem with the camera or hot shoe?

[ak_kiwi]

You may have the flash on RX, S1 or S2 Triggering mode (3rd top button from the left - just cycle through till it works)

[THoog]

What shutter speed is the K-30 set to?

[tjburns1]

What shutter speed is the K-30 set to?

So now I know it was something stupid I was doing, and I know what, but I don't know why. At a shutter speed of 160 or less it fires, over that it does not. So 160 is the max for flash?

---------- Post added 12-22-14 at 10:54 PM ----------

And paging through the manual, I answer all my own questions. Thanks folks!

[THoog]

1/180 is the max (to get 1/180 instead of 1/160, you have to set the camera to 1/2 EV steps instead of 1/3 - it's in the first custom menu). It's a limitation of the shutter design - if you tried to use a flash and go faster than 1/180, you would get black bands on the image. Pentax' solution is to just disable the hotshoe at speeds over 1/180.