Need a Metz Flash with battery pack

feeb · 2009-05-01T18:50:35+0100

Unless your flash gun is designed to take an external power source (like your Nikon) then you're stuck with an endless stream of AA's I'm afraid Amin. The Metz flashes being discussed here come with an attachment for a large external battery pack that can keep them firing all day long - this is why they're the choice of folks like (for example) wedding photographers who don't have time to be messing around with battery changes but need to be able to use their flashes constantly. Unfortunately, neither the flashes nor the external power packs come cheap! Thanks Hefty Seems I am really stuck then. Well, as I spend battery loads doing work in the shed I think the best option then would be to buy another cheap flashgun like the Nikon I got which takes external power source. I got it quite cheap, but at the time I didnt give much attention to the socket, only when I starting blowing so many betteries it got me thinking and noticed that slot. I will be looking for something like that again then, cheap for my smoke photos and stuff that I would like to experiment. Are they cheaply available? and will I be able to get a second hand flashgun along with its mains power source adapter together? I am left now to look for the powersource cable for the Nikon I have, it does a great job as it is with batteries but would love the power source for it now that I found it can get connected to mains

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MattMatic MattMatic

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Posted 04/06/2009 - 12:03 Link

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I am doing a degree in photography

And I never did... but I do know photography and equipment You might still learn something from the e-book though

Glad to help out
Hope you feel better soon!
Matt

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Edited by MattMatic: 04/06/2009 - 12:04

feeb feeb

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Posted 04/06/2009 - 12:39 Link

not as much as i will learn from a 1hr tutorial based around my specific flash from my acclaimed tutor who has been teaching for 31 years in the best photography school in the country i admit i dont know my equipment as well as i should/could but the techincal support i have access to is second to none unfortunatly i have the flu right now so have been banished from college until i have a blood test done at the docs... so i have to rely on you lovely people (i am so happy you are there though ) Soon as poss me and Ian will have a lesson and i will learn all i need to about this ole metz flash xx

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MattMatic MattMatic

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Posted 04/06/2009 - 14:51 Link

I too am always learning

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