Don't worry, I'm not going to start the debate about the F280 again. A
fellow list member asked me a few days ago about using T flashes with TTL
at longer speeds than 1/60.
While thinking about this problem it suddenly occured to me that the flash
is controlled by the body, integrating light from the flash and the ambient
light, and that another body would of course pick up the light as well.
It's then obvious that one camera can be used to control flash while the
other makes the "real" exposure. The flash-body don't even have to use
film, as long as the pressure plate is covered with something 18 0rey.
This is a rather complicated way to achieve something the OM-2 has done
perfectly well for decades, but manipulating the ISO-settings of the
flash-camera would be a very simple way to dial in fill-in-ratios.
This would of course only work for fairly long exposures where the
flash-camera could be manually triggered during the exposure of the other
camera, but I believe two motor drives could be added to ensure correct
timing of the two cameras. During testing one would probably find that the
two cameras/MDs have slightly different response time, and the slowest one
would have to be used for flash control. In an ideal world world the two
combinations would be exactly matched for speed, and the setup would work
all the way down to 1/60 sec.
I hope this triggers an interest among the zuikoholics that have a few
spare bodies and MDs lying around ;-)
At the moment I can't seem to come up with a situation to put this into use
and it's really frustrating to have a perfectly good solution and no
matching problem. Thoughts and ideas, please?
Thomas Bryhn
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