Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] flash sf20
From: John Coan <jcoan@alumni.duke.edu>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 12:02:10 -0400
References: <B570E178.6662%jbcollier@home.com>

Is this my lucky day?  Do you mean to tell me that a Nikon SC-17 which I 
already have will do off camera TTL flash with the Leica SF-20 which I just 
got?  Things aren't supposed to work out this way.

John

At 10:03 AM 06/17/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>John -
>
>Perhaps you've already tried this, but just for grins I put an SC-17 on my M6
>classic, and mounted the visoflex body without its prism (have a chimney 
>finder
>on order but not in hand yet) and it LOOKS like you could bend the cord 
>enough to
>snake out the side of the setup.  I don't know how good it would be for the
>internal wires long term, though, and you will need to lock the unit into 
>the hot
>shoe, as the bend in the wire wants to push it back out of full registration.
>I'll be interested to hear your results when you finally test a setup like 
>this.
>
>Cheers,
>Kip
>
>John Collier wrote, in part:
>
> > (snip) It also is impossible to use
> > the flash with the visoflex attached, where it would be extremely 
> useful, as
> > the prism is right over the hot shoe. I am going to pick up a vertical
> > magnifier and see if I get Nikons SC-17 TTL cord on but as the cord points
> > forward it looks a little doubtful perhaps some exploratory surgery on the
> > SC-17 is in order.... I will keep you posted. My recommendation is that the
> > SF-20 is a great flash.

Replies: Reply from Kip Babington <cbabing3@swbell.net> (Re: [Leica] flash sf20)
In reply to: Message from John Collier <jbcollier@home.com> (Re: [Leica] flash sf20)