Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And only with the Metz 54MZ-3. First you set the flash to manual. Then set the flash to high-speed sync. Then guess the distance. Then set the aperture on the camera. Set the shutter to 1/250, 1/500, or 1/1000. Then set the aperture on the flash so the flash can tell you the distance. If the distance isn't right or if you want to balance flash against ambient light set the flash for partial power. Because you remembered to tell the flash the aperture, it will re-compute the distance for you. Figure out where your subject went running off to. Grab the R8 or other SLR and be ready for the next shot. Actually, I've done it just to see if it worked. It does. So does the rear curtain sync. I haven't tried the silly strobe setting. And I wouldn't think of using the HSS on a real job. It would be nice if Leica would get Metz to make an update to the SF-20 that did HSS a little more intuitively, and even better, give us some sort of double-shoe solution to the off-camera-flash-while-using-an-auxiliary-finder problem, one that doesn't induce parallax problems. I suspect that's too much to ask. Gilbert On Sunday, August 4, 2002, at 06:10 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > Only on manual? you mean you set the flash to match the distance? > I must have forgotten to read the manual! :) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html