Zooming two flashes
On Camera (on the tranceiver) Pentax AF360FGZ. On the receiver: AF540FGZ. Non of them do zoom, when zooming the lens. I must do this manually. And then ONLY the receiver flash is changing focal length setting??
The on camera flash stays at 24mm?
What can I do?
The on camera flash stays at 24mm?
What can I do?
Comments
You don't need more than two V6II units.
My assumption is that your intended set up is not working due to a bug in PEN.A.001 which prevents the on-camera flash (the one sitting on your on-camera V6II) from working correctly. I understand Cactus are already looking into the problem.
You should be able to fire both flashes as intended using the multi-brand firmware variant (e.g., V1.1.013), but this won't give you P-TTL for the off-camera flash.
As I mentioned elsewhere, I think it would be helpful to do the troubleshooting either at pentaxforums.com or here, but not in both places.
- Mount V6 II (TX) on camera
- Mount Pentax flash on V6 II (TX)
- Switch on camera
- Switch on flash
- Set flash mode to P-TTL
- Switch on V6 II to TX mode
- Look on display of V6 II at bottom left corner, do you see "TTL", if yes, you have set on-camera flash to TTL mode (aka the old TTL Pass Through) so you need to Hold down the Menu button for 2 seconds to switch from TTL mode to Manual control. You will see the channel number displayed instead of "TTL".
- Then push in on the Selection Dial once, this switches from power control (either TTL+/- or Relative Power Levels) to Zoom, e.g. 35MM.
- Next, to control the on-camera flash, hold down the Menu button and scroll the Selection Dial at the same time.
Note that when your on-camera flash is set to TTL mode, you won't be able to manually adjust the zoom range.On the other hand, for your off-camera flashes in Group A, B, C and D, even if the groups are in TTL mode, you will be able to manually adjust the zoom level. The reason is for off-camera flash, flash is not necessary placed aligned with camera lens so the zoom information is not transferred to the off-camera flash units.
For more information please refer to the Quick Start Guide for Pentax X-TTL:
https://www.cactus-image.com/Cactus V6 II Quick Start Guide (Pentax%20X-TTL).pdf
And the User Manual, despite it is mainly for Multi-brand HSS firmware operations but the core controls are the same. Turn to pages 22, 41, 45 and 52.
https://www.cactus-image.com/Cactus V6 II User Manual (EN).pdf
The usual case is one (1) Cactus V6 II for each device (camera / flash), unless you are using one flash on-camera, then you two (2) would do.
Hope this helps!
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