Originally posted by sandilands +1
AND because the functionality in camera gets overridden by an AFxxx on camera, AND because Pentax wireless is not for anyone the least bit serious, AND because the AF series flash manuals haven't been rewritten since *ist, AND Pentax has invested $0 in flash technology, AND since the private brand companies only expend enough effort to make their units kind of work with Pentax ...... Yeah dumb manual flash with oddball workarounds is what we are stuck with. My AF360s were a serious waste of money.
+1
Try being in my shoes
Bought a 360 to do reverse lens macros last year. Discovered that it falls asleeeeeeeeeeeep after 60s.
Bought 2 540s to solve this issue (2 so I can balance light better). Discovered that these give me ghosting so need to use trailing sync.
Discovered that only PTTL can do trailing sync with my Pentax flashes. But PTTL on Pentax with M42 doesn't let me use manual power settings like the 1/64 that I typically use. And using M42 means PTTL only outputs trailing at 100%, so can't even complete one stack (typically a few 100 shots merged).
Think I've solved the manual power settings on my 540s by using this slave trigger to trigger the 540s (set on manual 1/64) from a 360 mounted. But the 360 mounted still only triggers at 100%, so it looks like I need to buy a Metz 58 which allegedly CAN do trailing sync in manual power mode.
So at the end of the day, 1 metz 58 triggering 3 crap yonguo flashes with my slave would give me a better solution than using 540s and a 360. Serious waste of money indeed.