Metz Camera Flash Light - Manual (Page 34)

Slave mode (light controlled):
With the mecablitz 28 CS-2
digital, you have a pure slave
flash unit at your disposal that only
flashes when you want it to – with
any camera. This is made possible
by its learning function, which
recognizes the pre-flash of your camera and
only responds to its main flash. With this
model, the picture results can be controlled
very easily via the plus/minus buttons.
Metz slave mode
(wireless Metz remote system):
This clever Metz system facilitates targeted
light control for two Metz flash units. Here,
one is attached directly to the camera as a
so-called master flash. in contrast, the other
slave flash unit can be positioned anywhere
in the room. For this type of slave mode,
a current Metz SCa flash unit is equipped
with an SCa slave adapter (SCa-3083)
instead of the SCa camera adapter, which
is used for a conventional flash.
This slave adapter makes
additional slave qualities possible.
By using a mecalux 11 as a
server flash trigger, a flash unit
can also be activated. However,
all settings must be made on the
flash unit itself here.
Slave mode for the respective camera
manufacture:
another way of using slave mode is opened
up by the two system flash units mecablitz
58 aF-1 digital and mecablitz 48 aF-1
digital. Both models are not directly
assigned to the slave category, but they
still can be used as intelligent slave variants
as well. Here, they support the flash modes
of the respective camera manufacturer. in
addition, the mecablitz 58 aF-1 digital has
a master function that you can
always use if the integrated flash
of the camera doesn’t provide a
master mode.
Slave mode at close range:
The Metz macro flash is attached directly
onto the lens, thus enabling precise and
creative lighting in the macro range. in
addition to which the Metz mecablitz 15
MS-1 digital can also be used in its slave
function for effectively brightening up dark
areas of the picture.
Side lighting
The slave flash mode is interesting in order to
obtain especially varied directed lighting. Com-
pletely without a cable (wireless), this method
can be used to place and trigger an external
flash at any place in the room. in this way, inter-
esting additional lighting can be set, whether in
the form of a light accent or a side light, for
example. naturally, multiple slaves can be used
at the same time. it is particularly exciting to use
this to obtain separate lighting for the subject
and the background of the picture.
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