Metz SCA 3202-M manual General description

6.1 General description

In this mode the slave flash unit is triggered by the light emitted from the camera’s built-in flash unit. Olympus digital cameras emit, when in flash mode, one or two preflashes a fraction of a se- cond before the picture is shot or the main flash is fired. These preflashes do not contribute to the ex- posure of the picture. The SCA 3202 adapter con- trols the slave such that it is triggered at the same time as the main flash.

The flash unit can be operated both in the auto flash mode A or in the manual flash mode M.

☞For system reasons cordless slave operation in TTL mode is not possible. If the flash unit is set in the flash mode TTL or EM (EM = Easy- Mode-TTL; only with 40 MZ-..., 50 MZ-5),

then the display of the SCA adapter will start to flash as a warning! We recommend to use the auto flash mode A of the flash unit!

Ensure that the light sensor at the front of the SCA adapter can receive the camera’s flash light re- flected off the subject in order to be able to trigger the slave unit. Do not cover the light sensor in the SCA adapter!

The maximum distance to the subject depends on the ambient light and the light-reflecting proper- ties of the subject or the ambient area of the sub- ject. Consequently, concrete distance values for the maximum working range of the slave flash unit cannot be given. The subject should not be further away from the camera or the slave flash unit so that the light sensor inside the SCA adap- ter can still receive sufficient reflected light from the camera’s flash unit to reliably trigger the slave.

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