Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill Pearce offered some strobe wisdom. :-) H i Bill, That you the one and only? ;-) cheers, ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Pearce" <bs.pearce at cox.net> To: <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 1:13 PM Subject: [Leica] How to avoid flash problems... > Not to become know as the group Luddite, but... > > I've been a professional photographer, mostly commercial and industrial, > since the very early seventies. I've taken a crack at several TTL flash > systems, and been uniformly dissapointed. My favorite flash getup was my > 500CM and a Quantum T2. I shot mostly Plus-X and 160NC, and the little > electric eye in the Quantum was flawless, although I understood that I got > some wiggle room from the film. > > Most recently, I used an SB800 with my D3, and while it was generally > reliable, it just wasn't as dead on as with the Quantum. Whne I got my M9, > I > didn't want to use the Quantum, as it was just TOO BIG, and the foot of > the > SB800 won't fit in the M9 hot shoe. So, I have a Metz 54, as nice a shoe > mount strobe as there is. With the standard foot, it has it's own quto > system, although not OTF. > > I recently used it, and there are NO problems, NONE! > > Not to be the Luddite, but I spit on TTL flash. > > Bill Pearce > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.431 / Virus Database: 270.14.123/2592 - Release Date: 12/29/09 07:47:00