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what accesory do i need for this flashlight
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i am about to put my Metz CL-1 flashlight away from my Rolleiflex 3.5 camera, just in the halfway to the subject. so the PC cord are too short to use. i think i can buy a slave and have it connected to the Metz CL-1, but what i need to trigger the slave? i don't want to buy another flashlight and in some cases i only want single sorce of light. ps. i see in ebay, there are some coiled cord for Metz CT-1, do you folks know if they suit my Metz CL-1? thanks. - woody |
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Recently, Steven Woody posted:
hi, i am about to put my Metz CL-1 flashlight away from my Rolleiflex 3.5 camera, just in the halfway to the subject. so the PC cord are too short to use. i think i can buy a slave and have it connected to the Metz CL-1, but what i need to trigger the slave? i don't want to buy another flashlight and in some cases i only want single sorce of light. If I understand your question correctly, there are flashes that have built-in slave triggers (some Metz models, for example). You could also buy a slave trigger, which is a sensor that attaches to the hot shoe of the slave flash. The last time I bought one of those it cost around $15 US. Regards, Neil |
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On 3ÔÂ21ÈÕ, ÏÂÎç8ʱ17·Ö, "Neil Gould" wrote:
Recently, Steven Woody posted: hi, i am about to put my Metz CL-1 flashlight away from my Rolleiflex 3.5 camera, just in the halfway to the subject. so the PC cord are too short to use. i think i can buy a slave and have it connected to the Metz CL-1, but what i need to trigger the slave? i don't want to buy another flashlight and in some cases i only want single sorce of light. If I understand your question correctly, there are flashes that have built-in slave triggers (some Metz models, for example). You could also buy a slave trigger, which is a sensor that attaches to the hot shoe of the slave flash. The last time I bought one of those it cost around $15 US. Regards, Neil sorry, i dont get the point. i just want sth. to trigger the metz CL-1, and i hope it is not a flashlight. is there anything such as a dedicated trigger? |
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Depending on the distance, why not just use a pc cord extension? Coiled
ones may put too much tension on the system ... "Steven Woody" wrote in message oups.com... hi, i am about to put my Metz CL-1 flashlight away from my Rolleiflex 3.5 camera, just in the halfway to the subject. so the PC cord are too short to use. i think i can buy a slave and have it connected to the Metz CL-1, but what i need to trigger the slave? i don't want to buy another flashlight and in some cases i only want single sorce of light. ps. i see in ebay, there are some coiled cord for Metz CT-1, do you folks know if they suit my Metz CL-1? thanks. - woody |
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Recently, Steven Woody posted:
On 3ÔÂ21ÈÕ, ÏÂÎç8ʱ17·Ö, "Neil Gould" wrote: Recently, Steven Woody posted: hi, i am about to put my Metz CL-1 flashlight away from my Rolleiflex 3.5 camera, just in the halfway to the subject. so the PC cord are too short to use. i think i can buy a slave and have it connected to the Metz CL-1, but what i need to trigger the slave? i don't want to buy another flashlight and in some cases i only want single sorce of light. If I understand your question correctly, there are flashes that have built-in slave triggers (some Metz models, for example). You could also buy a slave trigger, which is a sensor that attaches to the hot shoe of the slave flash. The last time I bought one of those it cost around $15 US. Regards, Neil sorry, i dont get the point. i just want sth. to trigger the metz CL-1, and i hope it is not a flashlight. is there anything such as a dedicated trigger? Sorry, it seems that I did misunderstand your question... I thought you wanted a slave flash. If all you want to do is connect a longer sync cord between your CL-1 and Rollei, choose one of the cables from the Metz site: http://www.metz.de/en/photo_electron...er.144-84.html Regards, Neil |
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On Mar 22, 2:01 am, "Neil Gould" wrote:
Recently, Steven Woody posted: On 3ÔÂ21ÈÕ, ÏÂÎç8ʱ17·Ö, "Neil Gould" wrote: Recently, Steven Woody posted: hi, i am about to put my Metz CL-1 flashlight away from my Rolleiflex 3.5 camera, just in the halfway to the subject. so the PC cord are too short to use. i think i can buy a slave and have it connected to the Metz CL-1, but what i need to trigger the slave? i don't want to buy another flashlight and in some cases i only want single sorce of light. If I understand your question correctly, there are flashes that have built-in slave triggers (some Metz models, for example). You could also buy a slave trigger, which is a sensor that attaches to the hot shoe of the slave flash. The last time I bought one of those it cost around $15 US. Regards, Neil sorry, i dont get the point. i just want sth. to trigger the metz CL-1, and i hope it is not a flashlight. is there anything such as a dedicated trigger? Sorry, it seems that I did misunderstand your question... I thought you wanted a slave flash. If all you want to do is connect a longer sync cord between your CL-1 and Rollei, choose one of the cables from the Metz site: http://www.metz.de/en/photo_electron...er.144-84.html Regards, Neil thanks for your inputs. and, i still want to ask: 1, i see some sales on ebay of long cords for CT-1, and does a CT-1 cords suits CL-1 too? as far as i know, CT-1 and CT-2 get different trigger volt. 2, in additional to using a long cord, is there any other solution? you know, sometimes using a long cord is not very convenient. so i am imaging that is there a small device which can attached on my Rolleiflex's PC port and trigger ( wirelessly ) a remote receiver which is connected to my Metz 45 CL-1? is there such an accesory? thanks. - woody |
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Recently, Steven Woody posted:
On Mar 22, 2:01 am, "Neil Gould" wrote: Sorry, it seems that I did misunderstand your question... I thought you wanted a slave flash. If all you want to do is connect a longer sync cord between your CL-1 and Rollei, choose one of the cables from the Metz site: http://www.metz.de/en/photo_electron...er.144-84.html Regards, Neil thanks for your inputs. and, i still want to ask: 1, i see some sales on ebay of long cords for CT-1, and does a CT-1 cords suits CL-1 too? as far as i know, CT-1 and CT-2 get different trigger volt. I don't know. I don't think trigger voltage would be the main issue, but whether the pin-outs of the two connectors are the same. I wouldn't think that any difference in price would be worth the gamble. 2, in additional to using a long cord, is there any other solution? you know, sometimes using a long cord is not very convenient. so i am imaging that is there a small device which can attached on my Rolleiflex's PC port and trigger ( wirelessly ) a remote receiver which is connected to my Metz 45 CL-1? is there such an accesory? Such items do exist... I use them with my studio lighting. But, you may be faced with the problem that the Metz needs a special connector to use the receiver. Neil |
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Woody, I see three ways to trigger your Metz flash:
1. Long extension flash cord, this would have a male PC-tip on one end and a female PC-tip on the other. The setup would then be: cameraextension cordMetz cordflash. Not very technical but cheap extension cords fail frequently and you have three places where the flash connection can disconnect (usually at the worst moment). 2. Use a optical slave connected to the flash and a small flash unit on camera to trigger it. The small flash does not need to be pointed at the subject (I bounce mine straight up) but the small amount of fill light it affords when pointing at the subject is occasionally useful. Vivitar used to make an IR emitting trigger flash but you could rig on of your own using a couple of pieces of dark blank processed Ektachrome to filter out the visible light from your trigger flash, most slaves are sensitive to IR unless they have blue filtration on them one brand does use a blue filter since they were so sensitive to IR that police car strobing lights would trigger them. 3. Use a radio trigger, there are both cheap, short range units and more expensive multi-channel long range systems (one brand is Pocket Wizard or something like that). BTW the 45-CT1 and the 45-CL1 use different flash cords. And the CT1 has a much higher trigger voltage. darkroommike Steven Woody wrote: thanks for your inputs. and, i still want to ask: 1, i see some sales on ebay of long cords for CT-1, and does a CT-1 cords suits CL-1 too? as far as i know, CT-1 and CT-2 get different trigger volt. 2, in additional to using a long cord, is there any other solution? you know, sometimes using a long cord is not very convenient. so i am imaging that is there a small device which can attached on my Rolleiflex's PC port and trigger ( wirelessly ) a remote receiver which is connected to my Metz 45 CL-1? is there such an accesory? thanks. - woody |
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On 3ÔÂ22ÈÕ, ÏÂÎç6ʱ32·Ö, "Neil Gould" wrote:
Recently, Steven Woody posted: On Mar 22, 2:01 am, "Neil Gould" wrote: Sorry, it seems that I did misunderstand your question... I thought you wanted a slave flash. If all you want to do is connect a longer sync cord between your CL-1 and Rollei, choose one of the cables from the Metz site: http://www.metz.de/en/photo_electron...er.144-84.html Regards, Neil thanks for your inputs. and, i still want to ask: 1, i see some sales on ebay of long cords for CT-1, and does a CT-1 cords suits CL-1 too? as far as i know, CT-1 and CT-2 get different trigger volt. I don't know. I don't think trigger voltage would be the main issue, but whether the pin-outs of the two connectors are the same. I wouldn't think that any difference in price would be worth the gamble. i also don't know the pin-outs. and, to me, it's mainly not a price problem letting me think about buy in a CT-1 cord, it's because on ebay i don't find CL-1 cords. i live in China, buy on ebay may be a little easy than do it on Metz. 2, in additional to using a long cord, is there any other solution? you know, sometimes using a long cord is not very convenient. so i am imaging that is there a small device which can attached on my Rolleiflex's PC port and trigger ( wirelessly ) a remote receiver which is connected to my Metz 45 CL-1? is there such an accesory? Such items do exist... I use them with my studio lighting. But, you may be faced with the problem that the Metz needs a special connector to use the receiver. but, you know, i've already have a CL-1 cord, one end of which is a standard PC connector, so i am thinking there may be a standard receiver which can be connected to the PC cord. i am just not sure if i am right and what's the name of this kind of receiver. another problem is the trigger, which should be connected to the PC connector of my Rolleiflex. thanks. Neil |
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On 3ÔÂ22ÈÕ, ÏÂÎç10ʱ26·Ö, darkroommike wrote:
Woody, I see three ways to trigger your Metz flash: 1. Long extension flash cord, this would have a male PC-tip on one end and a female PC-tip on the other. The setup would then be: cameraextension cordMetz cordflash. Not very technical but cheap extension cords fail frequently and you have three places where the flash connection can disconnect (usually at the worst moment). 2. Use a optical slave connected to the flash and a small flash unit on camera to trigger it. The small flash does not need to be pointed at the subject (I bounce mine straight up) but the small amount of fill light it affords when pointing at the subject is occasionally useful. Vivitar used to make an IR emitting trigger flash but you could rig on of your own using a couple of pieces of dark blank processed Ektachrome to filter out the visible light from your trigger flash, most slaves are sensitive to IR unless they have blue filtration on them one brand does use a blue filter since they were so sensitive to IR that police car strobing lights would trigger them. 3. Use a radio trigger, there are both cheap, short range units and more expensive multi-channel long range systems (one brand is Pocket Wizard or something like that). BTW the 45-CT1 and the 45-CL1 use different flash cords. And the CT1 has a much higher trigger voltage. darkroommike darkroommike, thank you very much, you answer are so helpful. in the solution 2, i don't know what's the 'darkblank processed Ektachrome', can you explain it? and, in the solution 3, if i understand correctly, does you mean the radio triiger won't fire light as an optical flash does? |
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