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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II 12-08-2011, 03:02 PM  
K-5 flash over-exposure solutions?
Posted By ade
Replies: 42
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I am using P mode. I am using the diffusor. The subjects I have had trouble with were fairly close, say 1-4 meters. With the AF360FGZ, I have been bouncing the flash off the ceiling. But as mentioned, I have also used the on-board flash as a fill, and those pictures were also over-exposed.
Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II 12-08-2011, 02:29 PM  
K-5 flash over-exposure solutions?
Posted By ade
Replies: 42
Views: 7,432
Sorry, I meant to say 1.11. I have edited the original message.
Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II 12-08-2011, 11:51 AM  
K-5 flash over-exposure solutions?
Posted By ade
Replies: 42
Views: 7,432
Hello, I bought a K-5 during the black friday sales. I'm pretty happy with it, with one big exception. It tends to wildly overexpose when I use the flash. Not every single time, but most of the time.

I mostly use an AF360FGZ. When I use this flash on my old K100D, it generally works fine, though it sometimes underexposes. But on the K-5 it seems to overexpose, perhaps 3 times out of 4. It's annoyingly inconsistent, usually it takes about -2 flash exposure compensation to correct for it, sometimes more like -1.

Even when I used the built-in flash as a fill, it also over-exposed. So it does seem to be a problem with the K-5, rather than with the AF360FGZ.

Looking through the forum history, I do see some other people complaining about the same sort of thing with the K-5. Not a huge number of people, so I assume it must work for most people? Or do most people just not use flash?

I saw a few suggestions in old posts. I have upgraded to 1.11 firmware from the Japanese Pentax site. I have also tried turning on the highlight protection. Neither seems to have made any difference.

EDIT: I originally said 1.13 firmware above. That was a typo, of course, I have 1.11.

When I use the RAW (DNG) files, I can sometimes recover from the over-exposure, but not always.

Can anyone suggest other solutions?

Are there a lot of people, who use flash heavily on the K-5, who find that it works most of the time? (I realize any camera will probably blow it some of the time, but I am seeing it most of the time.) Do you think perhaps I should return the camera, and see if another one works better?
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