My thinking was to get the off camera capability with only the cost of
buying a cable, as I have the T32. There is no PC socket on the E-300.
I naively thought there might be a cable that slides into the hotshoe,
in the same way as the foot of a flash, and then has a hotshoe at its
other end which the flash slides into.
James
On 5 Apr 2005, at 06:21, Chris Barker wrote:
>
> I cannot think which cable you would use James, unless you bought a
> Bounce Grip 2 and used the PC cord in its base to connect to the E-300
> (has it a PC socket?).
>
> If you are intent on using the built-in flash for fill-in, why not use
> a wireless set up? You could buy a T32 and a slave cell to slide onto
> the flash's shoe, or go the whole hog and buy a slave-capable flash
> like the Metz 34 CS-2 digital. This has three settings in Auto: normal
> Auto which you could use if it were set in the hot shoe of the camera
> (any camera); Slave 1 in which it is triggered by your built-in flash;
> and Slave 2 in which it is triggered by your built-in flash, but it
> also ignores any autofocus flashing before the main flash. I have used
> mine for all sorts of simple lighting setups and it is great.
>
> Chris
>
> On 4 Apr 2005, at 23:56, James Royall wrote:
>
>> I've never been a big fan of flash, so T32 atop the camera has done me
>> fine when needed, as I would not go to the lengths/expense of some
>> kind
>> of off hotshoe flash mount. I've realised, though, one of the benefits
>> of autofocus - the camera can be held in the right hand, with the left
>> acting as flash holder. So all I need for a setup with as much swivel
>> and tilt as the human arm can provide is a cable. I'll even be able to
>> use the fill-in built in flash for fill-in. Am I limited to those
>> supplied by Olympus? The T32 won't work TTL, so all I need is
>> something
>> to fire the flash. Will a generic flash cable do the job? Anyone got
>> anything spare they're not using?
>>
>> James
>
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