Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not to become know as the group Luddite, but... I've been a professional photographer, mostly commercial and industrial, since the very early seventies. I've taken a crack at several TTL flash systems, and been uniformly dissapointed. My favorite flash getup was my 500CM and a Quantum T2. I shot mostly Plus-X and 160NC, and the little electric eye in the Quantum was flawless, although I understood that I got some wiggle room from the film. Most recently, I used an SB800 with my D3, and while it was generally reliable, it just wasn't as dead on as with the Quantum. Whne I got my M9, I didn't want to use the Quantum, as it was just TOO BIG, and the foot of the SB800 won't fit in the M9 hot shoe. So, I have a Metz 54, as nice a shoe mount strobe as there is. With the standard foot, it has it's own quto system, although not OTF. I recently used it, and there are NO problems, NONE! Not to be the Luddite, but I spit on TTL flash. Bill Pearce