Originally posted by BruceBanner Well after a few more hours this morning trouble shooting I just gave up, I could not replicate consistent flash shots, even in Manual mode, something is amiss.
Sorry to hear.
Originally posted by BruceBanner At times I felt that perhaps the fault lied in the K-1 contact points, a little gentle wiggling of the vello cable attached on the K-1 and I noticed the 540II flash sometimes 'pick up' the info it was not receiving too well (such as the lens mm mounted etc), so I'm really starting to think perhaps my K-1 contacts are filthy and need a good clean or possibly even a bit 'broken'.
If there are intermittent contact issues then you'll have a very frustrating time with the V6II.
I had a unit during beta testing that made very unreliable contact on my cameras. The resulting experience was soul destroying. No replicability whatsoever, misfires, incorrect exposures, etc. Just horrible. If you know how to make the cable connect to the K-1 reliably and the V6II connects reliably to the other end of the cable, perhaps that would be a way to establish a reliable connection, at least for testing purposes.
Originally posted by BruceBanner Silly me all this time forgot I had a KP that I could also test all this out with.
It would be good if you could check whether you can replicate the issues you have experienced on the KP.
I don't know whether Cactus tested the V6II with a KP but in principle it should work.
Originally posted by BruceBanner Thanks everyone for trying to help me!
No worries.
Sorry if my contributions sometimes veer off a bit into technical matters. I blame mcgregni who simply shouldn't trigger me!
BTW, note that mcgregni made a very good point about your Metz flash being unable to participate in scenarios where the shutter speed exceeds 1/200s and it is optically triggered.
The "banding" you observed might be just the Metz contributing to the exposure erratically? I suggest that for further banding tests, you only use the RF60X. Once you have found a reliable mode of operation, you can add in the Metz. You may have to take certain measures to make the Metz work well, but that is definitely not something you should attempt from the get go.