Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Notes about TTL Flash: 1. Canon has wireless, multiple flash with their E-TTL line. You have to use either the 550EX or the Wireless controller as a master. 2. Rolfe, as a note to your comment below. What you say may be the case with some manufacturers, but I'm also an Olympus OM user, and they had multiple TTL flash technology since the early 1980's. I personally use three Olympus T-32's in umbrellas coupled with a T-20 for background fill; all controlled on full TTL-Auto by my OM-4t. It works great, and I could add several more flashes if I wanted to. I don't know the true limit, but you'd probably have a mess of flashes before you find the upper limit. Skip - ----Original Message Follows---- From: Rolfe Tessem <rolfe@ldp.com> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us - -----snip-------- One other thought on TTL flash: this is really a simple-minded technology that is limited to a single on-camera or possibly a single off-camera flash. I think it was probably designed with wedding photographers in mind. Once you get into any kind of multiple light setup, the TTL stuff is useless anyway. You just have to meter the flash and do it the old-fashioned way. Sometimes, less is more. - -- Rolfe Tessem rolfe@ldp.com New York City - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html