Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]><Snip> -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 Here's how I see it: With the sun behind a person you could use it close in I'd guess 4 feet max with 100 film. A moody rainy day like today you could pull back a couple more feet. The Mecablitz 32 Z-2 (which i have) with TTL shoe makes for a couple more feet on top of that. Actally it's gotta be a stop or two brighter. And if it was two stops thats twice the distance. Outdoors getting a full length shot with a normal lens is just maybe possible on a less than cloudy bright day. Not with an SF20 I shouldn't think. With a sync speed of 50 a tiny flash is good for indoor stuff or even a night shot. Not too far away it it's not dark out. Mark rabiner