Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have no idea if this will work with TTL--in fact, probably not, now that I think of it (though one of the auto options on this tiny flash is E.I. 200@f/2.8)--but a standard part of my kit has always been a small, cheap one-joint bounce flash with a couple of layers of white napkin held over the lens by a rubber band. Not only does this diffuse, cut, and soften the light, but it also widens the field of the flash to where I can sort of use it with my 15mm Heliar. The other thing I have on the flash sometimes is a file card folded in half and held with the rubber band so as to project out over the flash. I point the flash up, and bend the card forward a bit to give both bounce and fill. Some of you who worked in news when I did will also remember the trick of holding a spoon in the same position when using bounce, to give a bit of fill and eye highlight. I think all this stuff has been forgotten, now that photographers are no longer encouraged by their cameras to think. - --Michael >Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:53:40 -0600 >From: Henry Ambrose <digphoto@nashville.net> >Subject: Re: [Leica] flash >Time soon to get a flash to work TTL near >wide open. > >donal >-- >__________ >Donal Philby >San Diego >www.donalphilby.com > >Donal, >I want that little flash too! >No one seems to make a flash that will do that. >My dream is a flash that will let me use open apertures and fast film. >On my non-TTL Leica. >I want one that works as well as Nikon flash stuff. >Henry ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com