[Kombivan]

strobe experiments: Metz Flash 45 CT-1, CT-3, CT-4, CT-5, CL-1, CL-3, CL-4, CL-4 digital. Mini Review and Comparison. Which one is Best? (Ciao 45er!)


http://www.photographyreview.com/cat/flash-and-lighting/flashes/metz/45cl-4-...2_3121crx.aspx

[Kombivan]

Found an auto Metz Flash 45ct-1 you can be lucky. actually found two cases of camera gear last night was like a lucky dip things I thought I no longer had even found the old 28-200 Vivitar lens I had that I altered a bit also had one on a minolta but gave it to my Father years ago when his camera broke. It was attached to an X700 very nice camera.
---------- Post added 11-20-17 at 10:30 PM ----------

I found A KZ-M thats a manual camera with speeds to 2000 and TTL and it has an A option on the dial could be auto or aperture priorty I am unsure will have to find the book.

---------- Post added 11-20-17 at 10:32 PM ----------

I Found my SP F they have a full brass internals and everything I was told years ago, anyone know if that was true? The SP F (Spotmatic F) has a 1000 shutter speed unlike the Spotmatic 500 so I would say the SP F was the beginning of the k-1000.


---------- Post added 11-20-17 at 10:46 PM ----------

Found 4 k-1000, 2 MZ-5's 1 ME, 1 ME super, 1 MG and my surf camera the good ole SFX it was the surf and Wild life camera as I always had my 120-600mm hooked up to it which is currently getting the Fungus removed from it hopefully it will work out well and went through my box of filters and cleaned the fungus off them surprising how easily it comes off. Now I need a road trip but CGU insurance har trying to weasle out of a malious damage claim on my house did you know CGU and NRMA and Coles insurance and many others are the same company if you hear of people having trouble getting their stuff fixed chances there associated.

[Kombivan]

K10D arrived in the mail today looks good and seems to have a special function for Background and Foreground exposures in the Flash mode which is impressive if it works I need to wait for a new flash card to arrive before I can try it out seems to be a different type of flash card. If this function works I will be impressed. I know its an older model before the plastic K-x (which reminds me alot of the old MZ-M). I did purchase a Plastic zoom lens about 15 years ago and the only thing about it I dislike is the scratches in the silver paint displayong the black plastic underneath which kills the resale value. The title to this thread so far hasn't been reflected in my post so here goes I have had Minolta, Canon and nikon.

Minolta out of buisness now had fantastic lenses and good cameras but they had mechanical issues with the early models that lost them lots of buisness.

Canon These were excellent cameras as well but they changed their lens mounts from FD to the EOS lens which made all your early lenses useless and expensive to rekit.

Nilon again they changed their lens mounts I am unsure if once or twice but 20 years ago I made a decision to follow pentax because the Nikon gear was so expensive and very hard to find s/h gear and new excessories were priceless and back then I was taking photo's with my Pentax that compared the the Nikon images I was taking so Pentax won me by the Dollar value and the quantity of Pentax gear available back then I was a subscriber to the Photographic Trader an Iconic magazine that taught so much about photographic gear and very easy to cross refference prices which had ceased in 2016. It had everything from gear to specialist repair guys. It was awsome.

Pentax !5 years ago I purchased a pentax istd and could never work out how to use it with flash photography, Last year I purchased a K-m which I have been using with my website, midnorthcoastVW.com they are just snaps and the holiday photo's were taken with the Pentax IstD. Now I Have just purchased a K10D which looks like an impressive camera but here is the real story behind the sucess of Pentax after 15 years of loosing interest in photography all my flashes and lenses will still work on any camera I own since the M42 to the current Cameras thats almost 70 years of keeping the customer happy even if they have a 15 year stint of little photography, all my gear will work on my current cameras and I am hoping this plastic is a fad unless its carbon fibre but I don't know much about carbon fiber but I know my early spotmatics still work and here's the most impressive thing the only pentax camera That I've owned thet didn't work was a P30n and I purchased it broken as I wanted to pull it apart and have a look inside and see if I could fix it I can't find it so I guess I didn't get it to work. So every other pentax I have purchased is still in working order. Thats a pretty good standard for a product. and they all work with all my accessories.

OK tip for the day ever taken a surf photo on an overcast day and wish it was all blue as though it was a beautiful day yeah of corse you do so you get your grey looking surf photo put it in your vintage photograph copier, and remember that black timber old stereo cabinets were made from in the 1980's its actually a really deep blue that looks black you place a piece like a shelf from the cabinet under your grey photo put a layer of non reflective glass over the photo and take a photo of the original photo this magic turns your new copy from grey to blue.

[clackers]

OK tip for the day ever taken a surf photo on an overcast day and wish it was all blue as though it was a beautiful day yeah of corse you do so you get your grey looking surf photo put it in your vintage photograph copier, and remember that black timber old stereo cabinets were made from in the 1980's its actually a really deep blue that looks black you place a piece like a shelf from the cabinet under your grey photo put a layer of non reflective glass over the photo and take a photo of the original photo this magic turns your new copy from grey to blue.

Honestly, just easier to slide the White Balance in software of your scan, Kombivan.

You do seem to have done a Rip Van Winkle and woken up from the 1980s, bless you!

[Kombivan]

Might be true but I like to get the shot through the lens I don't believe in pc editing unless its a simple enhancement. I can edit and create images with a computer but Photo's I have a respect for the original. I also haven't played with colours in the camera as you said I have woken up from a past era or I like that era. When you can get a torn photo and restore it using the camera and pieces of other photo's to fil in the missing parts and also the touch up pens thats somthing that makes you feel creative. - I'll have to find this one.

The photo attached someone took for me with my instamatic camera the ones you count to ten with see I can edit but this image isn't as good as the one on my wall that I coloured in all the faded spots with touch up pens before I re-photographed it. This is a 44 year old photograph originally shot with an instamatic.The one on my wall I had to blow it up first then retouch it and Photograph it as well again. I also croped it abit with the camera when I reshot it. I didn't learn how to take a photo properly till 1997 before this was just guess work. The bottom photo is an enhancement as far as I like to go with a computer as I like to keep it real.

---------- Post added 11-22-17 at 09:01 PM ----------

Well the most important thing to a photographer is his eye sight and the more time spent infront of a computer editing photos the sooner he will require reading glasses I use a purple screen where ever possible as its soft on the eyes, I learn't in the first 2 years of using a computer I went from perfect vision to requiring reading glasses and I believe the use of less bright screens has prolonged my useful vision I don't need glasses for driving as my vision is perfect there but reading is hard I rely on auto focus now I can focus still but its hard and takes more time this is also why I don't like editing images on the computer.

[Kombivan]

You guys that gave constructive positive feedback I want to thank you I have my head around this digital photography now set both my K-m and K10D up the way I want them including the green modes and I am impressed with the way they work my problem was I was stuck in the year 2000 you see I used to do most of my stuff with 50 iso and the sensor well you can only call it a revolution makes a camera work very differently instead of using F stops to achieve light in photo's its now sensativity withe the other settings trailing. I like this K10D it might take a couple of days to get a handle on it. Thank you. I guess the days of the big flash are gone as these little suckers on the camera work great I'm finding about 800 is the mark for flash work indoors I set one green mode up so i get light behind the subject and the other green mode set up for darkness behind the subject anything I can set on the run.

[Kombivan]

I'm going to tell you why I used 50 iso AGFA it was the best film but at night it wasn't real sensitive so when I did a long exposure the effect would be my sky would be dark like the dark of night. With Fuji 800 the sky would turn green and I didn't like this. Picture below was shot with 100asa

---------- Post added 11-23-17 at 10:20 PM ----------

Attached Images

 

---

Last edited by Kombivan; 11-23-2017 at 10:25 PM.

[Kombivan]

This one is 50sas the one above I think is 100asa.

[Kombivan]

OK Guys I would like a list of which cameras are TTL I thought mine was the only model The Pentax IstD seems there is a few others does anyone know the metering type of a K100D

IstD = TTL
etc.

[twilhelm]

OK Guys I would like a list of which cameras are TTL I thought mine was the only model The Pentax IstD seems there is a few others does anyone know the metering type of a K100D

IstD = TTL
etc.

The K100D is PTTL

If you go to the camera section and select DSLR comparison, you can select all the models you want and the flash mode is near the bottom. I believe everything after the ist series is PTTL

[Kombivan]

Thank you twilhelm and you with the clackers for your helpful comments I must admit I can take a good photo but I prefer snapshots as if I see somthing I want to catch it if I have the camera on me. But if I was professional it would be a different ball game then. I used to plan my photo's the night before when I was teaching myself so when I would front up to my studio yes I had a studio back then but now I'm living in it I could just set up and start shooting as everything was already worked out in my head. Skin tones, backdrops everything was pre thought of. I was even published in August 1998 Australian Camera magazine once when the theme was blue and mine was included in the best of the bunch with the winners. I was so proud.

[Kombivan]

I realised last night why my flash wasn't working properly it was me, I was depressing the shutter button to focus and and stuff before the flash was ready as a result the light settings were selected for no flash then when the flash came online the incorrect settings were used giving me a washed out Image. Somthing that simple so I am going to change that setting in the menu of my cameras.

After owning my K-m for a year now I now know what the e-dial is and how it works the istD was so basic but worked like a film slr. I gather ther's lots more for me to learn my k-m amd K10D I would imagine I can set them up the same so they work the same. For those guys wishing they had a d series to use their old gear with 100% correct but saying this the more modern cameras seem to have more bells and whistles especially in the menu in the D series there is really nothing in the menu except really basic setup items like date and time and a few others.

[Kombivan]

Getting used to the on camera flash no more over exposed flash shots, showed my dog a picture of herself on the back of the camera she gave a quick glance then it registered and she swung her head back around so quick for a second look with a smile on her dial.

[rdenney]

Late hit, but the thread got off-track anyway. Canon made that switch many years ago, when they went from TTL to E-TTL. E-TTL used a preflash starting in the 90’s. I remember trying to confirm an automatic flash when using the Elan IIe, and seeing my Sekonic flash meter getting confused by the preflash.

And Nikon changed between the SB-28 and the SB-800, but I don’t know their designations.

Rick “P-TTL was late to the party” Denney

[Kombivan]

The Flash in AV mode I have found out by reading the book that old lens default to 180sp so when you set your aperture the shutter speed isn't going to change so you need your auto iso to work for you by hitting the iso button then the green dot button AEL and the auto iso kicks in to complete the accurate exposure you require. chow. I have a k5 now.