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Flash for Pentax K-30?

Started Mar 25, 2019 | Discussions thread
KPM2 Senior Member • Posts: 2,076
Re: Flash for Pentax K-30?
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Hello Massao

There are lot's of used old Pentax 360 FGZ, Pentax 540 FGZ, Metz 58 AF-1 avaible on E-Bay.

You will get for sure good recommendations here, but I personally will mention an other point.

For me, flash pictures are so nice to make with the cameras we have now, and I am sure you will like your K-30 also for this.

But there is a point, a lot flash users do not count in: a flash is a lightsource like the sun. You call it it's colour temperature. Now with your K-30 you can do wonderful indoorpictures, where you use the natural illumination mood of the room (like from a lamp) and add only a little flashlight to it, or where you only add in some areas of the room the flash light. And than the trouble is there: the room looks yellow, where it was illuminatet by the lamp and ok where the flash did illuminated it, or the room looks ok but the area where the flash do illuminated it, looks with a blue caste. To avoid that you match your flash to the existing colour temperature of the existing light sources via a colour foil. Such foils are nowaday so cheep and easy to get....for the case, you do not already have and use such foils, get one of such foil sets for your flash and you will enjoy, that flash pictures can have such a nice mood for situation above.

I wish you much fun with your K-30

best regards. KPM2

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