Re: [Leica] flash sf20

[Kip Babington <cbabing3@swbell.net>]

John -

I don't KNOW if the SC-17 will actually work with an SF-20 or not - I don't have an
M6 TTL or the flash.  I was just responding to a speculation about fitting the cord
while using a Visoflex - I do have the cord and a Viso.  But if you have the cord
and the flash, it should be pretty easy to check out.  The cord just passes through
the camera contacts to a remote shoe, so if the flash pins happen to line up with
where Nikon puts its contacts it ought to work.

Cheers,
Kip

John Coan wrote:

> Is this my lucky day?  Do you mean to tell me that a Nikon SC-17 which I
> already have will do off camera TTL flash with the Leica SF-20 which I just
> got?  Things aren't supposed to work out this way.
>
> John
>
> At 10:03 AM 06/17/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >John -
> >
> >Perhaps you've already tried this, but just for grins I put an SC-17 on my M6
> >classic, and mounted the visoflex body without its prism (have a chimney
> >finder
> >on order but not in hand yet) and it LOOKS like you could bend the cord
> >enough to
> >snake out the side of the setup.  I don't know how good it would be for the
> >internal wires long term, though, and you will need to lock the unit into
> >the hot
> >shoe, as the bend in the wire wants to push it back out of full registration.
> >I'll be interested to hear your results when you finally test a setup like
> >this.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Kip
> >
> >John Collier wrote, in part:
> >
> > > (snip) It also is impossible to use
> > > the flash with the visoflex attached, where it would be extremely
> > useful, as
> > > the prism is right over the hot shoe. I am going to pick up a vertical
> > > magnifier and see if I get Nikons SC-17 TTL cord on but as the cord points
> > > forward it looks a little doubtful perhaps some exploratory surgery on the
> > > SC-17 is in order.... I will keep you posted. My recommendation is that the
> > > SF-20 is a great flash.