On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:01:32 +0200, Rick Womer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I took my ist D along to a gathering of my extended
family Saturday. I was able to get some okay pix
using my old TTL Sunpak flash, but...
I =REALLY= miss having the flash shoe over the grip,
as it is on the Z-series cameras, instead of over the
prism. My favorite way of shooting indoors with the
(P)Z-1p is to bounce the external flash off the
ceiling, and use the internal flash for direct
lighting. Can't do that no more. I plan to buy a
Sigma DG-something Super, but even then I'll have two
things to hold instead of one to get the same
lighting, unless I start using a flash bracket again
(yuck!).
Hi Rick,
Bojidar Dimitrov states it in a rather roundabout way, but I think hot
shoe adapter Fg will allow popping up the internal flash of MZ-, and
probably *ist- bodies. See: <http://bdimitrov.de/kmp/flashes/index.html>
Or you could get a flash with two reflectors. I bough a Metz 40 MZ-3
second hand a while ago, and it performs brilliantly.
One more thing I miss: the infrared focus beam.
Will the *ist-D trigger the infrared beam from an external flash?
(piss, moan...)
:o)
--
Regards, Lucas
