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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
01-12-2016, 03:54 PM
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I have three AF360FGZ units. I use them on and off my camera for lighting. The ability of them to communicate wirelessly without any other accessories is nice, and the unit type performs very well with my Pentax cameras (K-5IIS and K-3II). Note the K-3II comes without a flash (pop-up) so a flash head is required for it to perform wirelessly with other external off camera flash units.
The K-50 has wireless capability.
The pricing on Amazon for the AF360FGZ is quite reasonable presently.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
01-12-2016, 11:21 AM
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AF360FGZ and AF540FGZ and their (II) model versions have HSS (high speed synch) .
F10 is a depth choice. Other F stop settings are not ruled out, depending on preference/need.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
01-12-2016, 10:47 AM
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Using a flash on your camera other than the pop-up will give you far more versatility and strength to work with. The AF360FGZ/AF540FGZ models or the later versions of those lines (II) will work in different modes along with Manual mode. Manual mode is valuable when using those flashes due to giving you the choice of settings to control your image outcome. If you used something like TAV mode, which I use almost all of the time for other than flash use, the ISO may end up being more than you want and cause noise in the image. But if I use Manual mode, I can use a setting like 200 ISO, F10, and shutter speed of 250 to catch some possible movement of a subject, and get reasonable results without having excessive noise and having reasonable depth. The flash itself will measure how much light is needed and discharge that amount when activated when within a reasonable distance of your subject.
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