Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/03

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Subject: [Leica] M9P in a Fashion Studio
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 06:32:32 -0500
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On Jun 2, 2012, at 5:52 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote:

> May well be so Sonny. It was just a curiosity to see in the video clip.
>> From memory, the Thumbs Up model with the cold shoe on top has adustable
> tension and a screw in the centre to hold it firmly in place. Still after
> the modification, it might be best to test this on someone else's camera
> lest you fry your own ;-) ;-)
> 

Don't think triggers pass enough voltage to fry the camera, nor do the Leica 
flashes.  All you would be doing is extending the center contact..

A more elegant mod could be derived from stealing the parts from a Nikon 
remote flash shoe.

Then you could maintain TTL control



> Cheers,
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> 
> 
> 
> On 2 June 2012 23:17, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> That would be a easy mod.  A guy with a drill press, a rivet and a plastic
>> washer could make it work in about five minutes.
>> 
>>  


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