Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/13

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Subject: [Leica] Anyone test SF-20 with M8 yet?
From: harrison at mcclary.net (Harrison McClary)
Date: Mon Nov 13 08:41:23 2006
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If teh auto WB does not work simply set the camera to daylight setting, 
this is what flash is supposed to be anyway.

IME auto wb is not as good as a custom WB or setting the WB to the 
proper setting to begin with.  The best thing I got is the Expo Disk to 
set custom WB, I added a 1/4 plus blue into the expo disk and this gives 
a slightly warm color balance, very much like using an 81A filter when 
shooting chrome., which is what I pretty much left on my lenses as I 
like some warmth in my images.

Leonard Taupier wrote:
> Tina,
>
> That's great if the SF20 works. Is WB also OK?  The manual also says 
> that the SCA-3501 will work except for setting auto WB. I like my 
> little SF 20 but after spending $5K for a new M8 don't want to spend 
> another $400 or so  for another flash. I also have the Metz 54MZ-4 
> which should work but I don't carry it around in my pocket. I think 
> the only way to see how WB is treated is to set the M8 WB to something 
> like incandescent and see how it looks with the SB 20. If you keep the 
> M8 in A mode all the time it may not matter at all.
>
> Thanks for your input, Tina.


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