Thanks Andreas! I'll look into the Metz, though I think I may end up with a
"hot light" system instead, which will also work with shooting architectural
interiors. (At least that's what the photog who's shoots my projects does.)
Cheers,
Rob
Seattle
On 12/19/04 4:39 AM, "Andreas Pirner" <AndreasPirner@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There are two approaches: wireless TTL or wireless non-TTL.
>
> Wireless non-TTL is easy and cheap. Just use one or more
> any-brand-flashes with hot shoe and preferably several auto
> settings and several manual settings. Connect them to slave
> triggers (i.e. WEIN -- http://www.omegasatter.com/v2/products/,
> but there are dozens others). Whenever one of these combos
> sees the flash mounted on or cabled to your camera doing its
> job, it immediately does so too. It adds its light to that
> of all others. Accordingt to the setting of auto or manual
> it switches off when it "has seen/done enough". Total light
> calculation may be tricky and is best done with a flash meter
> (no fancy one needed).
>
> Wireless TTL with OM is pretty rare. I know of METZ with the
> SCA 3000 series. The 40 MZ.. flashes, the 54 MZ.. and the 70 MZ..
> all take part of the wireless TTL system. One of these is connected
> to your OM via a SCA 321 adapter (yes from SCA 300 system --
> introduced in 1982 and continued since), ensuring the TTL with the
> OM as any OM TTL flash does. This flash unit gets programmed to be
> 'master'. All further METZ flashes of the mentioned models
> must be fitted with SCA 308x slave adapters, and are set to
> 'slave' mode. The master communicates to its slaves by some
> flash impulses and thus insures the full TTL control for all
> flashes.
> There are radio controlled variations of this idea, being
> even more expensive (I think Quantum or Lumelite do it).
>
> Andreas
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