I guess you are talking about TTL flash.
Originally posted by discharged Oh what a monster issue you might think, and that is right, for me it is since I am very bad at right and left (If someone yells cover right, or attack left I have to stop and think for a second what way right or left is.... People playing sports with me has learned and now yells names or a description etc.)Anyway, sorry for ranting... This means I usually just turn it either way to see what works... and now nothing works since I have to compensate for possible errors while turning earlier. it is horribly annoying
It is the same on my K3. For flash, there is the X sync mode. Also, when using a manual flash, aperture and iso control the exposure because flash light is way faster than 1/200th, it like this for every camera since ages. So I see it more as something that's not convenient for you rather than a bug.
Originally posted by discharged if you are planning to use the flash and want shoot using live view, you can basically forget it right now it will just be black as the night, the display will show you what the sensor would have captured had there been no flash and when you want to fine tune the focus you will have to use the optical viewfinder.
On my K-1, LV manual mode displays a bright image during the focusing sequence and until the focus is reached, so I don't need to use the optical viewfinder, except if I'd use a manual focus lens.
Originally posted by discharged Second question: I am expecting the LCD to try and get some sort of image on it and not just a black screen.
That's what I get but only during AF, then black screen again.
Originally posted by WPRESTO Presumably you'd have to turn the flash off to focus in LV to take advantage of focus peaking, image enlargement, and just using the tilt screen instead of a refconverter for framing, then turn on the flash to shoot.
It seems that with or without flash makes no difference in manual mode, if the ambient light is dim (when you need a flash :-)), the LV display may be too dark depending on programmed exposure settings. But if you use the X sync mode (the mode dedicated for flash) , the LV is bright, works great. When using flash, it is common practice to use aperture and iso to balance the ratio between ambient light and flash light exposure because the speed of the flash light is way faster than 1/200, so changing from 1/200 to 1/100 will make little difference , the best being to use the maximum flash sync to avoid the subject in ambient exposure to blur the resulting image (also see flash guide number). When in X sync mode, the shutter speed is fixed to 1/200 (1/200 can be on the K1 to 1/180 or 1/160), iso and aperture can be changed manually, the LCD brightness is constant regardless of the exposure without flash, and at the bottom of the screen is indicated how much the ambient light is underexposed or overexposed.
Last edited by biz-engineer; 05-30-2016 at 10:45 AM.