Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/12

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Subject: [Leica] Re: TTL flash problem
From: Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 10:34:43 -0400

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)


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