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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: simultaneous use of flash & external finder
From: "Tom Schofield" <tdschofield@email.msn.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:17:48 -0800

Is there a cable that will transfer the TTL flash connection?

Tom Schofield

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Wilcox" <wilcox@tir.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 11:40 AM
Subject: [Leica] Re: simultaneous use of flash & external finder


> Find a DFOOB. These are commonly included in CHICO flash outfits for about
> $10. The DFOOB will slide into the shoe of your camera. Slide you 24
finder
> into the shoe of the DFOOB and you flash into the shoe on the end of the
> arm of the DFOOB.
>
> OR- Buy a CTOOM flash bracket. It was designed to use withe earlier
cameras
> - the ones with the mounting stud, but can also be used on the M6.
>
> Ken Wilcox
>
>
> At 1:12 -0500 3/8/0, a fine scholar, Andrew Moore wrote:
>
> >I sometimes need to use both an external 24 mm finder and a
> >small flash on top of my M at the same time, but these items are
> >"mutually exclusive" due to competition for the accessory shoe.
> >
> >I can connect the flash via PC cord, but there's still the problem
> >of where to mount it.
> >
> >Did Leica (or anyone else) ever make a 24 mm finder that has
> >its own accessory shoe on top?
> >
> >What's the most creative -- no, scratch that.  What's a good way
> >to do this, while still keeping the M reasonably compact and
> >"ergonomically correct?"
> >
> >--Andrew
> >NO ARCHIVE
>
>
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