I thought some of you guys might want to know this :-) Many years ago (1993, I believe), before I got a professional flash strobe outfit, I made a flash outfit myself.
I bought four used Metz CT 45 camera flash units (I already had two). I mounted these separately on an Osram Pilot. This is a device that will hold a camera flash, a lamp (bulb) and an photo umbrella. I got very tired of Loading the flashes with batteries all the time. So I built contact units, that would allow me to use either larger batteries (C) or an AC/DC power supply. The photograph posted below, shows a AC/DC device fitted with a contact that has a built-in condensator/capacitor (A friend of mine, who is an electro-engineer, told me to do this), which will prevent the fuse in the AC device to blow, when to flashes are charging at once. (This is why a big "K" is written on the unit). Then I made a battery container attrap (in the front of the picture) to put into the flash battery compartment. I connected the stuff, using long wires - and Bingo! I use slave cells for activating all flashes, except the one that's connected to the camera. This way it's not too expensive to get a powered flash outfit with acceptable recharging intervals. In the end I also made soft boxes to fit on two of my four Osram Pilots. All the best Jens http://gallery37564.fotopic.net/p10011017.html mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt
