David Goldfarb
(K=7611) - Comment Date 4/6/2003
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Anything that can be used with a conventional PC cord that meets your power needs and budget should do. Do you have a flash that works with another system? You may only require a hot-shoe/PC cord adapter and a bracket to use it with your Yashicamat.
A flashmeter is likely to be the most accurate method, but if you have a flash unit with it's own auto sensor (i.e., not TTL flash), that will work for on-camera flash. If you have a strictly manual unit, you can test the flash to determine the guide number and make yourself a chart that will tell you the aperture for various flash-to-subject distances.
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Brendan Bhagan
(K=531) - Comment Date 4/22/2003
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Yay another tlr fan, well I have an easy way for you, cheap to. get one of those pc to hot shoe adaptors ( $5 ) and then use any hotshoe flash on a bracket. I have a cheap achiever auto flash ( but I have used it with my Pentax Af500FTZ in manual mode with a flash meter ). Set aperture to F8 and shutter to 1/250 or 1/500 and blast away at anything up to 20 ft away.
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Stan Noreika
(K=122) - Comment Date 4/23/2003
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I use a Vivitar 283 (the old standard workhorse) on automatic mode. The only thing you have to set is your f-stop dictated by the flash's scale, being as the flash will synch at all shutter speeds. I would recommend 1/60th or faster.
But, MAKE SURE THE FLASH SYNCH IS SET TO X SYNC!! I've missed quite a few shots because I forgot to check.
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Brendan Bhagan
(K=531) - Comment Date 4/23/2003
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The mat doesn't need to be set to X-sync ( well some ) But I recomend a shutter no morethan 1/250, some of these work hourses don't tick right.
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