Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What Larry says is quite right and if you get a small flash that rotates you can point it away from your subject also. If you really want to spend some money get a Pocket wizard. They are great. I used to use a Radio Slave, and just got the wizard last year and it is far better. Less interference from other devices, is smaller and mounts directly in the hot-shoe. They run about 300 bucks I think. One thing about this route is that if you are remoting your flash out where other people may be shooting then you do not have to worry about their strobes popping our strobe. Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > > On Jan 8, 2007, at 2:24 AM, Bob asked: > >> Is there a generic device that can be placed in the hot shoe of any >> Leica M or Nikon SLR that can fire a single non-TTL remote flash >> either by wireless or IR? > > > Porters and numerous other camera stores sell a remote flash trigger > for about $15. I use several of these attached to the mounting shoes > of Olympus Auto 310 flash units which are used as modeling and > background flashes in my "studio." A very small, cheap camera mounted > strobe flash emits enough light to trigger the bigger flashes yet does > not materially illuminate the scene. This technique will work with any > camera and even with P&S cameras with built in flashes. If the camera > mounted flash emits too much light, drape a couple of layers of > Kleenex over it. The flash triggers seem to respond to the quick rise > time of the camera mounted flash rather than the amount of light emitted. > > Larry Z -- Harrison McClary Harrison McClary Photography harrison@mcclary.net http://www.mcclary.net ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography http://www.imagestocksouth.com Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: http://web.mac.com/whmcclary/iWeb/tobacco-road/Blog/Blog.html