Metz 60CT series flashes also have a motor drive setting that keeps up
at 5fps, but not with as much grunt as a Norman I'd guess. Mine will
deliver 7 metres at f2 with ISO400 at the normal reflector setting.
According to the Mecamat 60-30 sensor that's about equal to 1/64 power.
In theory 1/32 should recycle in under 0.2sec but that assumes the
capacitor's recharge curve is a straight line, and it probably isn't.
FWIW I got my 60CT-1 in the early '80s when they were new to the market,
and for a long time (perhaps still?) Metz 60s were regarded as THE
handle mount flashgun to have when power and auto-exposure both
mattered. And it didn't hurt that owners of 45CT-*s would turn green
with envy when you could just keep hitting the shutter release with nary
a care for recycling times.
But my prime reason for getting a brute flashgun was to achieve daylight
fill flash over a reasonable distance at the modest x-synch of older FP
shutters. I suspect it is cheaper to increase the power of the flashgun
than it is to make fast X-synching FP shutters, but for better or worse
the manufacturers have decided to throw OUR money down the latter road.
Perhaps it is more profitable for them to value-add the camera than it
is to value-add their flashguns, or risk letting a 3rd party
manufacturer like Metz or Braun or Sunpak take the sale (and profit)
from them.
Regards,
Anthony Farr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> OK, Tom I'm busted. I spoke out of school on that one. Never used
> a big-ol Norman, my flame thrower flash is a Sunpak 622 and since
> I usually shoot 400 speed film at F5.6 on football games, it takes
> about a second to recharge.
>
> ...
> Like to make a small wager? A Norman 200B at 1/4 power will. But you
give up
> all automation with
> that.
> - --graywolf
>
>
> Robert Payne wrote:
> >
> > no flash can keep up with a 4+ fps motordrive,
>
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