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The nearest camera store to me is 100 miles away, and I can't find a definitive answer to this online. I had an old Minolta auto 320 which swiveled, tilted, and had a very high guide number. It wasn't TTL, of course, and had a manual mode where you could adjust the flash power. A circular table on the back moved with the flash power set, you turned a wheel to your film ISO, and you looked at the table on the wheel for the distance to the subject, and then read what to set the camera aperture to. I now have a compact camera with a manual mode. Is there a comparable flash I could use as a slave to the camera flash? High power, tilt, swivel,adjustable power, and a table that changed depending on the ISO you inputed, and gave you the aperture setting? Any help is greatly appreciated. |
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The nearest camera store to me is 100 miles away, and I can't find a definitive answer to this online. I had an old Minolta auto 320 which swiveled, tilted, and had a very high guide number. It wasn't TTL, of course, and had a manual mode where you could adjust the flash power. A circular table on the back moved with the flash power set, you turned a wheel to your film ISO, and you looked at the table on the wheel for the distance to the subject, and then read what to set the camera aperture to. I now have a compact camera with a manual mode. Is there a comparable flash I could use as a slave to the camera flash? High power, tilt, swivel,adjustable power, and a table that changed depending on the ISO you inputed, and gave you the aperture setting? Any help is greatly appreciated. if you want to keep using that, just get a slave. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Optical-Slaves/ci/1736/N/4168864834 |
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On 05/28/2017 02:38 PM, Jer ) wrote:
The nearest camera store to me is 100 miles away, and I can't find a definitive answer to this online. I had an old Minolta auto 320 which swiveled, tilted, and had a very high guide number. It wasn't TTL, of course, and had a manual mode where you could adjust the flash power. A circular table on the back moved with the flash power set, you turned a wheel to your film ISO, and you looked at the table on the wheel for the distance to the subject, and then read what to set the camera aperture to. I now have a compact camera with a manual mode. Is there a comparable flash I could use as a slave to the camera flash? High power, tilt, swivel,adjustable power, and a table that changed depending on the ISO you inputed, and gave you the aperture setting? Any help is greatly appreciated. There are a lot of flash units on the market. If you are going for "high power" and all the swivel, tilt, adjustable power, you might want to consider a studio flash. Many studio strobes will have a built-in slave trigger so they will fire with your camera's flash. Of course a studio flash is going to require some kind of light stand, and either an AC outlet or a big battery pack. The circular table you refer to is just a "Guide Number" calculator. In the good ol' days, before auto strobes, we used a guide number to set the f/stop. For a certain ISO and a certain flash output, you had a guide number. You measured the distance from the flash to the subject, divided the guide number by that distance, and the result was the f/stop. For example: I had some studio strobes with a guide number of 320 with Portra film. If the distance from the strobe to the subject was ten feet, 320/10 = f/32. Be aware that the distance from strobe to subject is the distance the light travels. If I were to bounce the strobe off the ceiling, then the measured distance would be from the strobe to the ceiling and back down to the subject. (And throw in a half/stop or so to allow for the reflectivity of the ceiling.) -- Ken Hart |
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