Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Hi Simon, Steve, >I'm just back from a trip during which I used a TTL M6 and an SF20. In my >humble opinion, the SF20 is the perfect flash for an M6 TTL. >Small but with an elevated reflector to avoid red eye. It works. >Light. Very.Powerful. Enough.Reasonable on batteries; switches itself to standby after three minutes. >Easy enough to use on non TTL bodies.Also a good match for an R8.Impossibly easy to use - virtually foolproof in TTL >mode. >Regards >Rick Dykstra Hi Rick, like I said, it has it's place. In fact I'm considering one especially for travel use. But it isn't "powerful" next to even the basic T2's 150 watt seconds (they make one which will go up to 800 w/s!). Nor can it shoot bare bulb which in my opinion is the way to go with on-camera flash. And bounce also isn't possible. I regularly shoot upwards of 400 full-charge exposures on a single battery charge with my T2, which I suspect the tiny SF20 can't match. Each shot, whether the first or the 400th recycles in less than a second which is also important to me. The SF20 just isn't built for that kind of use.What it is a cute little no-fuss highly portable flash for limited purposes. If I recall correctly (and it was a while ago) I was responding to a post which said that the SF20 was too small to be really useful for a lot of things AND that therefore the TTL function of the M6TTL isn't useful. My point was simply that the SF20 isn't the only compatible flash for the TTL & if you need something bigger there are equally "foolproof" TTL-compatible alternatives. I wasn't dismissing the SF20 itself for the uses it is built for, just the implication that the usefulness of the M6's TTL flash circuitry is tied somehow to the specifications of Leica's proprietary flash. Regards. Simon Stevens