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5.0 out of 5 stars
Old school Flash vs. Speedlight, February 21, 2009
To those who purchase names and jargon, have a look at what a real flash is all about. The Metz 60 CT-4 has it all! But first you will have to be able to think! Today's photographers under the age of 30 have never owned a real camera that needs to be adjusted to achieve a good photo, and some have never shot a roll of film.
The same goes for this flash. You can't strap it on your camera, and have auto everything at your disposal. It has to be adjusted for the shooting parameters of the job at hand.
It can shoot a monster full power burst, a 1/200th of a second blast, and photograph an object 50 feet away at F:5.6 @ISO 200 or 100 feet at F:2.8, or 300 feet at F:2.8 @ 1600 ISO. That's a football field! Now that's pushing the Physics of light's envelope a bit, yet it can stop the motion of a humming bird's wings with a 1/8500th of a second at 1/256th power five feet away, and all on Manual. On automatic, you have eight F:Stop ranges, with "ISO 100", and with these auto settings you can freeze action with a mind numbing 1/20,000th of a second micro burst from its Thyristor Circuitry in some instances.
Sure Canon and Nikon have their "Speedlights"! Remember this, a flash by any other name is still a flash, and believe me they tack on a big price just so you can own their fancy jargon "SPEEDLIGHT"!
In some instances you can pick up a darn nice Metz 60 CT-4 flash for a fraction of their Speedlight's price, and get two or three times the power output, and all the bells and whistles by a simple twist of a knob here or there, and by just a cursory glance at the calculator ring on the top of the flash head see exactly every F:Stop from F:1-F:32, and not be strapped down with LCD screen techno info readouts to confuse.
Did I say the head weighs 22 ounces! and the battery pack another four pounds. Quite the burden to carry for owning one of the premier flash units of all time.
Yes! I had to walk to school! 1.5 miles in the rain up hill both ways from 1956 to 1962, and my first camera outfit in 1969, was a $30.00 1950's Pawn Shop Olympus rangefinder, and an $8.00 1949 G.E. Selenium hand held light meter.
I went to Alaska with the Coast Guard, and with my $38.00 camera outfit, was outshooting a know-it-all who thought by buying a Nikormat, he would upstage me....WRONG! You see I was an artist first, and a photographer to prove it!
I never could afford Nikon, but what I couldn't afford was to be a dork with a fancy named camera in order to make me a photographer. After all is said and done, I was the only Boeing employee in the history of Customer Services to have his own camera equipment on a camera pass! Yes I was that good!
Now I own two Pentax K10d's and my Potato Masher METZ 60 CT-4, and gobs of stuff never dreamt of back in 1969, including a PTTL flash too. So I am not averse to automation and the benefits it brings with it.
Sooooo....If you are not afraid of thinking, and need the power and speed of the old school's work horse POTATO MASHER flash, I highly recommend this METZ 60 CT-4 FLASH for weddings, sports, macro, and even multi-exposure stop action, just to name a few things us old folks like to say; are what make up a real old school "FLASH". Did I forget to mention "POWER"? Sorry....That too!
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