Re: [Leica] Flash for M's

[david place <dvplace@top.net>]

Donal ... thanks for the Q info ... I haven't called them but requested printed info
over three weeks ago and have received nothing ... Lumedyne is great but I do want
TTL ... am seriously considering the Qpaq-X with one head to start ... this is a
modular system something like Lumedyne ... can build up to 800 ws through two heads
... run off batteries and still have TTL ... I don't need f/11 .... guess I'll go
count my penny jar ... [enjoyed your  web site] .... dp

www.dplace.org

Donal Philby wrote:

> david place wrote:
> >
> > I have also been looking at the Quantum ... specifically the T model with
> > Quantums new power pack ... this also will power two units ... also offers TTL
> > ... but the price is out of sight ... worth it ?
>
> David,
> Price is slightly more than Lumidyne and not far from Norman (and you'd
> still have a norman!).  I look at them as being relatively inexpensive.
> But then I have cases full of Balcars and all the stands to hold them.
> With the Q'flash you can also use Chimera rings and softboxes.  And
> still do TTL.  Of course, other than flash fill, I am really paranoid of
> auto flash that I can't control or see on polaroid.
>
> I just shot portraits of Jim Lampley Friday.  He is big time boxing
> announcer on ESPN and other networks and he loved to move around and my
> brain was going crazy doing inverse square fall off calculations on the
> fly in my head (I have enough trouble reading the meter).  Would have
> been lovely to get the four light set up nailed in one position and then
> let ttl take over the slight changes.  But difficult with the Qs to get
> f/11 I needed for some full length shot done on 6x7 for the full size
> stand up cut out of him.  But most could have been done at 5.6 for the
> 35s.
>
> BTW, I called Quantum for information and they were useless, even
> surly.  Called Lumidyne and they were wonderful.
>
> donal
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> Donal Philby
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