I've found 2 kinds of cordless TTL
- radio waves - camera make specific
- slaves which sense the shutoff & quench ASAP - These don't depend on
a
particular make. Ikelite makes them
Tom
On Monday, December 17, 2001 at 16:57, Daniel J. Mitchell
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "RE: [OM] Cordless TTL?" saying:
> > The simple slaves trigger the flash, but don't offer any interaction with
> > the camera for TTL. This means that the camera doesn't get the quench
> signal
> > to the flash.
>
> Hm, that's pretty unhelpful of them. Ah, right, I see; checking on B&H,
> some of the slaves there have power settings, so I guess you have to treat
> the slave as a manual flash and work out all the exposure the hard way. What
> a pain. (I was assuming the slave would only fire for as long as the master
> is firing (barring slave running out of oomph, at least)).
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