Originally posted by Bob Tuttle 237v...check for a decimal point.
Yes, I know it sounds incredible, but it is true. When I prepared for measurement I set my voltmeter to 20V range, waited for flash to fill up, then measured and the scale went to overflow! Then I changed the range to 200V, and it was still to high!
I had to switch the range to 1000V to get the measuremet I reported.
I have repeated the measurement three times (i.e. fired the flash in between measurements, then measured). The measurements were consistent. First one 237V, second 228V third 227V (the falling trend probably indicates weakened batteries).
I think that it would be fair from Pentax to state the max switching voltage that their SLR's can take withoput any damage. I tried to find the information in the manual, but were unsucessful. So, one can conclude one of two things:
A.) Pentax feels that the K100D can take all the voltages that any given flash unit can produce
or
B.) They forgot to include this information in the user's manual
Anyhow, I don't think I'll be using my old flash with K100D. Will keep it on my trusty ME Super, and wait for Pentax to come up with a reasonably cheap verion of P-TTL flash...
... or state the information in the future versions of their user manuals (like that's going to happen
Regards,
Bostjan