Ah, more fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) peddled by the vendors of
"safe sync" hot shoe adapters. A quick $50 for the seller peddling a
mostly unnecessary part.
The Metz flash will almost certainly provide a male PC connector to plug
into the E-1's female PC connection. Oly doesn't spec the hot shoe for
us but the E-1's PC connection is rated at up to 250 volts. See page
106 of the E-1 Reference Manual.
Next you need the specific voltage of the specific Metz flash. If you
have the flash in hand just measure it. Or, if you only know the model
number you can look it up here:
<http://www.botzilla.com/photo/strobeVolts.html>
Some very old flashes might have high trigger voltages but any
reasonably modern Metz unit will likely fall about in the 6V range.
Chuck Norcutt
Joe Gwinn wrote:
> At 3:29 AM +0200 5/29/06, Listar wrote:
>
>>Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 10:57:00 -0300
>>From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: [OM] Re: T32 on an E1 - d'oh!
>>
>>
>>I asked at a local pro photo shop whether a Metz stick handle flash gun
>>could be coupled up to an E500. I was advised that a camera hot shot
>>attachment was available which they had in stock. Their advice was "don't do
>>it" even if using the attachment since there was no guarantee that the flash
>>would not kick back a power surge into the camera and fry the electronics.
>>In that event the advice was that I would be fighting a long and loosing
>>battle with Olympus to have the camera repaired under warranty.
>>
>>In the event that Metz stick handle flash guns are not suited to the E500,
>>are there any other options for adding powerful off camera flash lighting to
>>this camera?
>
>
> There is a more general question to be answered: What do the various
> E1/eVolt hot-shoe contacts do, and what are their voltage/current
> expectations and tolerances? I have not seen anything from Olympus
> on this, but the information must be somewhere. The physical
> arrangement of contacts is different from that of the OM-series
> cameras, but what is communicated between flash and camera must be
> mostly the same.
>
> Joe Gwinn
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