The Halogen lights seem fine for B&W work even with it's yellowish cast. It has dawned on me that I have more than enough light with an AF500FTZ, AF330FTZ and achiever flash. I only have an older minolta auto meter III which does not have flash metering but how would one use a flash meter with TTL? Won't the TTL adjust flash out put maing the meter reading inaccurate? I know that with the AF500 set to slave and the Achiever set to auto flash with a slave eye I can calculate the exposure but how will it affect the AF330 on camera in TTL? I have a large 42" 5 in one reflector to bounce with and I have the stofen omni bounce for the AF500 ( which is rather soft both bounced and direct ). I experimented and manually calculated the settings withthe other 2 flashes yes with the AF330 on camera I don't get the good exposure indication ( 1/60 @ F8 ) but it still exposes correctly since I calculated the output of the other 2 flashes. I'm very tempted to get another AF500, an umbrella and a flash meter to have a portable lighting setup ( or an alien bee and very long extension cord ). The recharge time with the AF500 and nimh batteries is about 3 sec at 1/2 power for 120 flashes so that doesn't seem to be an issue.
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