Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill, I have the Metz 32Z2 flash with the 3502 module in addition to the SF-20. The Metz works great on TTL with both my M6's and R9. It also has the advantage of a rotating head for bounce. I also use the Metz with the 351 module on my R6.2 in TTL mode. I have had good success with that combination also. I bought the Metz because I could use it with all my TTL Leica's, the SF-20 will not work on the R6.2 in TTL mode. I really like the Metz 32Z2, but I still use the SF-20 quite a bit using a Contax TLA extension cord. The SF-20 with the extension cord is a dynamite combination. Regards, Charles - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Satterfield" <cwsat@istate.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:39 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Got my SF-20 flash... > Can you buy a Metz that will work the samr as the SF20? > > Mark Rabiner wrote: > > >Austin Franklin wrote: > > > >>Along with my M Motor, I received my SF-20. Operationally, it seems very > >>nice...in fact, I was surprised it actually gets the ASA from the camera! > >> > >>Two "complaints". One, it's built like a toy. Could they have made it any > >>flimsier? Second is the screw around the flash shoe...WHAT WERE THEY > >>THINKING? They want me to crank that down onto the top deck of the camera > >>and mar up the top deck? Were their "engineers" drinking heavily when they > >>"designed" this thing? I mean, operationally, the flash is great...but the > >>mechanicals of this thing are just really terrible. > >> > >>Thanks for people's recommendations, though it's a vertical flash, I think > >>because of it's small size and operational ability I can live with it... > >> > >>Austin > >> > >>-- > >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > >> > > > >Austin I don't agree with lots of what you're saying here first of all > >though it appears you are not aware that the flash is a Metz flash which > >Leica badge engineered. Metz flashes are built like tanks and have a > >good reputation (hence Leica subbing with them in the first place; they > >could have put their name on a Vivitar 283 but it just would somehow now > >have gone over) > > > >Second of all my experience with the flash having bought one for my X > >wife a few years back if you recall is that it is well built and > >designed and most importantly: works. Slide after slide of Kodachrome 64 > >and 200 perfectly exposed. This was with a TTL camera. The sensor I cant > >speak for. > > > >My problem with it is it's basic design shape. I think of that design > >sticking up like that as an amateur design and I'm going to be a little > >embarrassed using it. I like professionally designed low slung flashes > >like Metz is best in designing and making. The war of the world shape > >not the V 283 shape. Still I'm going to get one for it's size, weight > >and general efficiency it's at least a hundred bucks over priced but it > >says "Leica" on it and works with the cameras. > > > >Makes one less intimidated about venturing but with slower film. Plus I > >like flash pictures. Love the feeling of shooting with an effective > >shutter speed of 1/200,000 of a second or some such astronomical number > >and getting it all at f11. (That would be with fast film with this > >flash). Check out those individual eyelashes! > > > >The proof will be in the pudding, Austin whether this flash ends up > >working for you or not. I suspect on the long run it will. > > > > > >Mark Rabiner > >Portland, Oregon USA > >Photography > > > >Web Sight: http://www.rabinergroup.com > >Email: mark@rabinergroup.com > >-- > >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html