Originally posted by Class A The profile worked before, though, right?
Yes, although I didn't test it thoroughly with a meter, etc. Basically I profiled it, then started controlling it from another V6, and everything seemed to work well. A day later (and thereafter) I put it on the same V6, with the custom profile still selected, and it won't go over the bare minimum power... no matter what the V6 underneath it says. Not terribly surprised, as it's both cheap and very new, but I would expect better for the more capable, and up-dateable "Mago" version.
The X-650 still works as a manual flash, but the lack of control from the V6 pretty much defeats the purpose of using it for me. Maybe it will work fine on a Canon body in E-TTL, but for my Pentax setup with V6's, I can get an RF-60 and be done with the screwing around... even if it did seem like a great, cheap solution at the time.
I will say that Pixel has gotten the build quality and recycle time quite right, besting a Yongnuo and my older Metz flashes. "The devil is in the firmware," as they say!