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flash stuck in hot shoe!
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I received my AF540 yestereday, mounted it on the K10D, took a few shots to test it, unmounted it and took a few shots in wireless mode (this is really great!), then mounted it back to play with the AF spot beam.
Now I'd like to unmount the flash (for a second time) but I can't. Even when the locking lever is open (turned away from the "FIX->" position that tighten it to the shoe) the flash will not slide off the shoe; it will only move by less than half a millimeter.
Has this happened to anybody? any idea what could be going wrong?
Posted at 12:22AM, 24 March 2007 PDT
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push down lightly as you slide it back towards you. Be gentle though
Posted 63 months ago.
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no luck :(
I'm going to turn the camera to the service center on Monday. I hope they won't keep it for weeks.
Posted 63 months ago.
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End of the story:
I went to the store where I bought the camera on Saturday, and they said it would take at least 25 days to send the camera to Pentax and get it back. So I kept my camera, and spent the weekend with the flash unit mounted on the body like a leech. This morning I went to the only Pentax service center in France (1h30 from home). Very nice folks. I left half an hour later with the camera in one hand and the flash in the other one. I didn't even had to show a warranty card.
It turns out that there is a lock pin than can descend from the flash into a little hole in the hot shoe to prevent the flash from sliding away. This lock pin should normally retract when the locking lever is open, but in my case it didn't because of a defective piece in the flash.
The guy who fixed the flash told me he also upgraded the firmware of the camera to 1.11 "while he was at it"... (I was sticking to 1.10)
Originally posted 63 months ago.
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gadl edited this topic 63 months ago.
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great you found this solution.
Posted 63 months ago.
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So this explains the flash in this picture...
I was wondering if you had found a new technique for flash panoramas...
Posted 63 months ago.
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