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| − | The '''Metz Mecablitz 36 CT 3''' is a flash for the ambitious amateur. It needs just 4 AA batteries put behind its front sliding door. Its flash head can be set to indirect lightning positions 45°, 60°, 75° or 90° upwards, or into normal straight-forward lightning position or the same position with the close-up variations 5° or 10° downwards. The flash head can also be turned horizontally, up to 180° to the right or 90° to the left. On the flash light part is an uncoupled analog calculator to see which film-speed/aperture combination allows which distance in feet or metres. A second | + | The '''Metz Mecablitz 36 CT 3''' is a flash for the ambitious amateur. It needs just 4 AA batteries put behind its front sliding door. Its flash head can be set to indirect lightning positions 45°, 60°, 75° or 90° upwards, or into normal straight-forward lightning position or the same position with the close-up variations 5° or 10° downwards. The flash head can also be turned horizontally, up to 180° to the right or 90° to the left. On the flash light part is an uncoupled analog calculator to see which film-speed/aperture combination allows which distance in feet or metres. A second analog calculator is coupled to the electronic settings switch on the back. This calculator also allows to read out different distances for wide, normal and tele lenses. And it switches the electronics to settings for apertures 11, 8, 5.6, 4 or 2.8, or to a [[TTL]] mode, or to the M mode (maximum), or to the W (weak) mode. The uncoupled analog calculator can be switched from M to W mode or vice versa. Thus this uncoupled calculator supports aperture setting calculations for the maximum mod and and the weak mode. |
The flash belongs to the SCA 300 system. That means that its foot can be exchanged with a special foot for a certain [[TTL]] camera's special [[hot shoe]]. That's what the TTL mode is good for since some of these adapter feet are made for cameras with TTL flash control. | The flash belongs to the SCA 300 system. That means that its foot can be exchanged with a special foot for a certain [[TTL]] camera's special [[hot shoe]]. That's what the TTL mode is good for since some of these adapter feet are made for cameras with TTL flash control. | ||
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| Mecablitz 36 CT 3 on a Minolta 7000 image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights) |
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| Metz Mecablitz 180 on Konica C35 image by Uziyahu Michaeli (Image rights) |
Metz Mecablitz was a largely advertised series of sophisticated electronic flashguns.
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Flashguns
System SCA 300
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| adapter Metz SCA 332 RL and Mecablitz 36 CT 3 image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights) |
The Metz System SCA 300 system comprises several intelligent electronic flashgun units, and for these flashes a set of interchangeable electronic flash adapters. The basic adapter is the SCA 301 which can be used on every standard hot shoe. But since many major camera companies decided to create their own variants of the hot shoe Metz made a lot of different electronic adapters, some even adding camera functionality like the autofocus-aiding red light. The Metz SCA 332 RL is a sample for such an adapter which adds an AF aid light and connects a Mecablitz flash unit of the System SCA 300 to the Minolta 7000 SLR camera. The SCA adapters combine the Metz SCA 300 flash system with the bodies of certain camera systems. Even some other flash makers offer flash units which use the Metz SCA 300 flash system adapters, for example the sophisticated electronic flashguns of Cullmann and Osram.
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| Metz Mecablitz 36 CT 3 image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights) |
Metz Mecablitz 36 CT 3
The Metz Mecablitz 36 CT 3 is a flash for the ambitious amateur. It needs just 4 AA batteries put behind its front sliding door. Its flash head can be set to indirect lightning positions 45°, 60°, 75° or 90° upwards, or into normal straight-forward lightning position or the same position with the close-up variations 5° or 10° downwards. The flash head can also be turned horizontally, up to 180° to the right or 90° to the left. On the flash light part is an uncoupled analog calculator to see which film-speed/aperture combination allows which distance in feet or metres. A second analog calculator is coupled to the electronic settings switch on the back. This calculator also allows to read out different distances for wide, normal and tele lenses. And it switches the electronics to settings for apertures 11, 8, 5.6, 4 or 2.8, or to a TTL mode, or to the M mode (maximum), or to the W (weak) mode. The uncoupled analog calculator can be switched from M to W mode or vice versa. Thus this uncoupled calculator supports aperture setting calculations for the maximum mod and and the weak mode.
The flash belongs to the SCA 300 system. That means that its foot can be exchanged with a special foot for a certain TTL camera's special hot shoe. That's what the TTL mode is good for since some of these adapter feet are made for cameras with TTL flash control.
Metz Mecablitz 38 CT 3
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Metz Mecablitz 38CT3 flashgun, on Chinon CE-3 Memotron | |||
Metz Mecablitz 45 CT series
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