Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yeah. I totally had that 283/cord/sensor setup in the 1980s. Thought it was the cat's meow. Of course, I was also 13 years old. The 283 with remote sensor was easier to compensate than TTL flashes of the day. You'd just move the aperture but not the sensor setting (or vice versa). TTL flashes didn't have a lot of flash exposure compensation. Metz had something called a Mecamat for the 45 and 60 series that was a remote sensor on steroids, complete with parallax correction, spot metering (6 and 12 degree if I can remember), and both manual power factors and numerous automatic modes. What a marvel of German complication (er... engineering) compared to the 283... But the big advantage of TTL was that you could not screw up the lens aperture and power settings. Change the f/stop, and no problem. Change the ISO on the camera, no problem. The only kicker was that you couldn't just do an open-flash check. Dante On Dec 28, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > In the late 70's with a 283 or 285 Vivitar you'd take the sensor off the > flash and put it on the hotshoe with the coild cord and out of a roll of 36 > you'd only have 2 or 3 bloopers. With the hotshoe in the flash you'd got 4 > or 5 bloopers. Me at least. > When TTL hit in the 80's you'd get 1 or 2 bloopers. > The difference between 1 or 2 verses 2 or 3 didn't impress me. > But its reading through whatever filter's you've got on the lens. Making > you > less adverse to using them. > And if its a long lens its becoming a spot meter. > That's hard not to get impressed by. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information