Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Can you buy a Metz that will work the samr as the SF20? Mark Rabiner wrote: >Austin Franklin wrote: > >>Along with my M Motor, I received my SF-20. Operationally, it seems very >>nice...in fact, I was surprised it actually gets the ASA from the camera! >> >>Two "complaints". One, it's built like a toy. Could they have made it any >>flimsier? Second is the screw around the flash shoe...WHAT WERE THEY >>THINKING? They want me to crank that down onto the top deck of the camera >>and mar up the top deck? Were their "engineers" drinking heavily when they >>"designed" this thing? I mean, operationally, the flash is great...but the >>mechanicals of this thing are just really terrible. >> >>Thanks for people's recommendations, though it's a vertical flash, I think >>because of it's small size and operational ability I can live with it... >> >>Austin >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> > >Austin I don't agree with lots of what you're saying here first of all >though it appears you are not aware that the flash is a Metz flash which >Leica badge engineered. Metz flashes are built like tanks and have a >good reputation (hence Leica subbing with them in the first place; they >could have put their name on a Vivitar 283 but it just would somehow now >have gone over) > >Second of all my experience with the flash having bought one for my X >wife a few years back if you recall is that it is well built and >designed and most importantly: works. Slide after slide of Kodachrome 64 >and 200 perfectly exposed. This was with a TTL camera. The sensor I cant >speak for. > >My problem with it is it's basic design shape. I think of that design >sticking up like that as an amateur design and I'm going to be a little >embarrassed using it. I like professionally designed low slung flashes >like Metz is best in designing and making. The war of the world shape >not the V 283 shape. Still I'm going to get one for it's size, weight >and general efficiency it's at least a hundred bucks over priced but it >says "Leica" on it and works with the cameras. > >Makes one less intimidated about venturing but with slower film. Plus I >like flash pictures. Love the feeling of shooting with an effective >shutter speed of 1/200,000 of a second or some such astronomical number >and getting it all at f11. (That would be with fast film with this >flash). Check out those individual eyelashes! > >The proof will be in the pudding, Austin whether this flash ends up >working for you or not. I suspect on the long run it will. > > >Mark Rabiner >Portland, Oregon USA >Photography > >Web Sight: http://www.rabinergroup.com >Email: mark@rabinergroup.com >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html