Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was not talking about multiple flash setups, just single flash enhanced ttl. Check out this brief description of the Nikon 3d multi-segment balanced fill-flash technology. I'd like this on the R cameras, it is state of the art currently, for auto-flash. http://www.nikon-image.com/eng/FeatureGuide/features2.html - - marc On Sunday, September 22, 2002, at 05:55 AM, Rolfe Tessem wrote: > > > --On Saturday, September 21, 2002 9:29 PM -0700 Marc Attinasi > <marc@attinasi.org> wrote: > >> >> I'll bite too: Check the E-TTL flash metering of Canon, and Nikon's >> super-sophisticated matrix / distance coupled flash metering. They >> flash >> a dozen or so super fast flashes, read the reflections in the matrix, >> compute the distances, and adjust for a 'perfect' flash exposure. That >> is, to my understanding, the cutting edge of flash technology, and I >> don't see that in the flagship Leica (but then I don't have an R8 or >> R9, >> though I can read) > > I don't see them in the Nikon or Canon *cameras* either -- I see them > in the dedicated, propriatary flash units combined with the the > matching dedicated, propriatary wireless controller from the same > company. > > Leica doesn't have its own sophisticated dedicated flash or wireless > controller, but you can do basically the same thing with multiple > Quantum T2s combined with Quantum FreeWire radio slaves, when used > with Quantum's own dedicated R8 interface. > > And let's face it, if you're actually using multiple flash units on > location, the T2 is a much more versatile unit than Canon or Nikon > shoe-mount flashes. > > Finally, I'm not as taken with the idea of the camera's meter trying > to figure out how I'm trying to light with multiple units as you seem > to be. I don't care whether Nikon calls it "Matrix" or whatever; how > can the camera possibly know whether I want the background one stop > over, one stop under, or the same exposure as the foreground (just to > use one trivial example)? > > -- > Rolfe Tessem > rolfe@ldp.com > Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. > -- > 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