My quandry is this:
I already own an AF500FTZ and was considering purchasing a second flash for 2 reasons
1. Multi-Flash capability esp with respect to this project
2. My wife keeps taking the 500FTZ to use on her 5n and therefore I need a 2nd flash. :-)
Although the 360FGZ is less powerful it would do fine in 99.9% of situations that I do use flash so the lower power does not bother me at all. I was also hoping to be able to use the 360 and the 500 together in a multi flash setup. with the 500 as the main light and the 360 as the fill light, since it has exp compensation built in. Given the subject (s) full manual mode is not an option, its too slow.
If i'm talking gibberish pls say so :-)
Btw my subjects for the "project" are small captive live animals (mostly bugs, larvae and some small mammals) in a "simulated" natural environment (trerrarium). A ring flash would be gr8 for this type of work but since I don't have much use for a ring flash other than this project so I'm not really considering it. A sturdy bracket for both flashes will be required but this I can borrow from a freind who built himself a really nice home made one.
I will probably shoot with a 180mm Macro lens so that I don't need to get in too close to the subject.
Tnx
Patrick.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The MZ-S is the body that introudced the P-TTL.
You should dismiss 500FTZ too fast: if contrast control doesn't
satisfy you (the manual has a pretty good explanation of it) and the
subject is rather static, you can always set up manually the flashes
based on the working aperture, distance to subject and amount of
compensation for each flash. A second approach would be to put the
500FTZ in Auto and wireless modes and dial compensation by setting
larger apertures than the working one.
Servus, Alin
Patrick wrote: PG> Since the 360FGZ was originally designed for the MZ-S am I right in PG> assuming that the MZ-S has P-TTL mode ?
PG> I really hate flash work but i've got a small project that requires a PG> mult-flash setup and am working out how best to set-up.
