Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This will work, with some testing for calibration - or put the second flash on auto. Both flashes will read the total light and act accordingly. Even simpler, try a reflector in place of the second flash. Ken Wilcox At 1:49 PM +0100 12/12/99, LuPi wrote: >Hello LUGGERS, >I'm a new entry and I've got ready a question > >I need to take some good close up photos of some small 3D objects. I tried >using my R6 with a Metz 32 CT8 in TTL with SCA adaper and an off-camera shoe >adapter. I placed the flash near to the lens but I obtained a not very nice >shadow behind the objects. So I thought to solve my problem in this way : to >use the Metz flash with the off shoe adapter in TTL mode placing it on a >side of the lens and to buy a servo-slave-cell to connect to another manual >flash with very low guide number placing it on the other side to make it >fire when the Metz will fire. >In my mind I think that in this way the small flash will give a fixed output >of light while the Metz will be controlled by the camera TTL cell to add the >necessary amount of light taking in consideration both the flashes. Is it >true ? >Thank you for the answers. > >Luca (Italy) - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com> <kwilcox@gfn.org>