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Forum: Flashes, Lighting, and Studio
04-10-2013, 07:52 AM
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I think it would make sense for *Pentax* to speak other systems' languages, particularly since they haven't been too interested in flashes, themselves, (I accept this because I'm not, either. I'd be happy as a clam with good old fashioned auto flash with a simple 'off the film' electric eye, myself. )
..and there's also the fact that there's a lot of people who use the other brands for working and Pentax for their personal stuff. They'd surely rather just have one flash system to worry about/carry around.
Simply put, *no* one is going to look at P-TTL and say, "Oh, man, I just *gotta* have that, I think I'll go Pentax." :) So it might be a good idea for them, ...at least if they don't come out with a vastly-improved system. (That's assuming Nikon really wants to share compatibility.)
I'd really say that Pentax either needs to improve their system or go with something simple, robust, and reliable. Which could of itself be a selling point: a lot of serious Pentaxians are DIYers, and the average customer seems to be generally bewildered by all the fancy stuff anyway.
I do think it *would* be interesting and doable if Pentax made its own flashes with a simple auto-flash mode that would work passably-well on anyone *else's* stuff, perhaps simply ignoring everything but the center contact.
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