Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12
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Felix:
As a news photog that covers selected receptions I love using my old
vivitar283 with my M6. First off take it off the camera. The eye at the
front comes off and with a special vivitar cord it can be fired from the
hot shoe. The other thing I do is use a dog battery ( called UNDERDOG - see
WWW) so the battery is attached to the flash. On the flash I use a bounce
card. My friend Grant Black former photo chief of the Windsor(ONT) Star now
with the Calgary Herald built an attachment that allows the above cord to
screw into the tripod socket allowing the 21mm finder to be in the hotshoe.
Using this system means the eye extension cord must be plugged into the
X-synch.
Kevin Argue
St. Catharines, Ont.
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>From: "Felix Erazo" <ferazo2000@yahoo.com>
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: [Leica] Using M6 with Flash
>Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2002, 2:58 PM
>
> Hello boys & Girls
> Has anyone of you used a Vivitar 283 flash with an M6? Because, I would
> like to use it for some indoor shoots. I have a Nikon sb-28, But some
> people tell me that the sb-28 would fry the leica. This weekend on the
> travel channel they showed a segment on ROME, Italy. And they featured a
> photographer called the king of paparazzi. Can't recall the name. But in
> any event, he was using an M6 with a small metz flash.
>
> Regards
> Felix Erazo
> www.thrutheviewfinder.com
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