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Subject: [Leica] Anyone test SF-20 with M8 yet?
From: len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)
Date: Mon Nov 13 08:55:14 2006
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Harrison,

Exactly. Now I know why your Fall color photos are so gorgeous on the  
little D50. I was only trying to find out what the difference is  
between the two flashes, if any.  I could only come up with WB as a  
possible change. Doesn't seem significant.

Thanks,
Len

On Nov 13, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Harrison McClary wrote:

> 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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