[GregYoung]

My Camera is a Pentax K3
I would like to know how to use a third party flash (Yongnuo YN568ex) of camera as a black light, and use the Camera pop up as a fill flash, need step by step easy to understand directions from Flash settings, Camera Settings and weather i need a wireless flash trigger which i do have (YN622N 11) and the setting for that, please help.

[Unregistered User 8]

Hi Greg. Here is a link to a Pentax tutorial about wireless flash. They use Pentax flashes, but 3rd party flashes still apply if they have the required wireless setting ability. Hope this helps mate. Good luck.

You Tube

You Tube

[clackers]

Forget the wireless trigger, Greg, for your situation.


Read the Yongnuo manual as to how to make it the slave to the K-3's popup flash.

[GregYoung]

Forget the wireless trigger, Greg, for your situation.


Read the Yongnuo manual as to how to make it the slave to the K-3's popup flash.

Thanks Clackers, will give it a read

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Hi Greg. Here is a link to a Pentax tutorial about wireless flash. They use Pentax flashes, but 3rd party flashes still apply if they have the required wireless setting ability. Hope this helps mate. Good luck.


Pentax D-SLR Wireless Tutorial - Extremely Detailed - YouTube

Thanks pjv will try this

[ScooterMaxi Jim]

Best bet to avoid pTTL type lag issues - which are quite major on all Pentax dSLRs - is to use the manual ratio settings on the K-3 and either wire from the PC socket, or preferably, use a high quality optical slave on the remote flash. Wein HS at around $35 is probably the most dependable. Overall, this is about 98% reliable, far better than the alternatives I've tried (which is most everything). By the way, the ratio flash on the K-3 is amazing, and can get down to practically nothing at 1/128. The on-board can be further softened with the Demb Deluxe which is another key essential for on-the-fly flash at a pro level. The only real downside to the slave procedure is if others are shooting the same scene - obviously the optical slave does not differentiate.