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Got to continue
It's been a while since I've updated
You with any information regarding the flash units that are available for the Panasonic and Olympus range of cameras
So I'm looking at the CSC'S and the bridge camera range of cameras and Panasonic
There's also been some changes to the way the camera hotshoe configuration works
with the latest CSC so that's going to be the g8 the g8 e85 and
Possibly the g9 now there is an extra contact placed in the hot shoe
Now traditionally there has just been three contacts on Panasonic cameras one provides the flash ready signal and the other two provide the data
communication for the
Camera to the flash units then we have the central firing pin and of course the ground of the hot shoe itself
now with the later cameras there's another pin there, which gives five volt power to new flash units that are coming out for the
Cameras now that don't have built-in flash units
So these CFCs don't have a pop-up flash unit which is used to either give you fill in flash or act as a master controller
For a number of slave units now because of that situation where their exif pin on there
It's giving us a problem trying to find compatible flash units no traditionally you'll be using something like the Panasonic or MPUs
FL 360 or FL 36 and that will work
But if you wanted to find a small unit to work with this range of cameras you'd have to use the Panasonic
Plush unit which comes with the LX 100. I put a link to that in the video description below for that word tight unit number
But that appears to be quite difficult to apply as an individual item
but there's an alternative and it's in the form of an Olympus push on flash unit now this one the
FLL m3 is designed for the OMD m5 and then one mark two versions
It's 500 pard and that's provided from the little
Gold contact on the new cameras through to the gold contact on the hot shoe here
So it provides us with an on-camera flash, which you can use for filling
Or more importantly to wirelessly optical trigger some external slave units
so we'll be looking at that in a later video how to set up these cameras in the optical slave mode and
Be able to set up some remote units in the TTL if you've got TTL compatible
flash units or just in the manual mode with slave carriages s1 or s2
So be looking about in a short time in a later video, but for the moment
I just wanted to show you this olympus unit to enable you to use it on the Panasonic cameras you have to modify it
These are about seventy pounds
I think on the UK Amazon site, so they're not cheap
And there is a cheaper alternative which I'm going to show you in a moment
But if you wanted a nice compact flash unit if you only use flash occasionally and just needed a small pop-up flash
For your camera then this is an ideal solution
Providing you fire away the front face of the lip of the hot shoe on the Olympus model
The Olympus one has about a one and a half
millimeter plastic lip on the front of the unit which prevents it from fully seating on the
Panasonic cameras, but if you carefully file that face away you will find that you can push this onto the camera so with the
fllm three
Olympus flash and the modification to file away the front face of the unit you'll find that you can polish
Insert the flash unit into the hot shoe of the camera the camera now knows that you've got a flash unit attached then the flesh
Will be enabled and again. You've got it in TTL mode. So you notice
We've got TTL control of the flash unit and that can control other flash groups
In the same channel or on three separate groups
So you've got full control now of external units with the Olympus
Flash if you modify it to fit on the Panasonic camera
now with the bridge camera range the fz200 has been a particularly difficult camera to find compatible unit for
my go-to flash unit has always been the
Nissan i-40 it's quite an expensive flash is about a hundred and fifty pounds now in the UK
But does give you full flash camp
Ability with the SR 200. It's both swivel arm own, so you've got control
TTL or auto or you can use it as a video light
It's quite a versatile unit but quite expensive if you're not using flash that often with your F set 200
There are other units which claim to be
Panasonic or Olympus compatible like this me k MK 320 it says on the bottom
Panasonic so you have touch it to your F set 200
Turn on the flash unit turn on the camera
It looks as though it's communicating because it's showing me the aperture and if I change the aperture the
Apertures are changing on the black of the flash unit show me in TTL mode
but if I take a picture
The flash fires at full power up you can probably see on the screen everything is burn out so
It's not TTL compatible. You can still use it in the manual mode
So you can use this?
for an on-camera manual flash if you wanted to you can use it as a trigger for other optical units but in terms of an
on-camera TTL flash it's a no-go
That's why I've been recommended the listen I forty
the Olympus slash the FL 360 or the FL 36
It's fully compatible, but these are getting very difficult to acquire on the second-hand market
You've got to buy the new later, FL three six zero
It's got a built-in light
It's got some extra features
But again quite an expensive flash unit but now coming to market is a company called gold ox now there are Chinese
Manufacturer some of the original products were a little bit questionable in terms of quality, but the later kit is really well-made
I've got two of their studio flashes the ad 600 and the ad 200 and they're superb units
But they've now got a range of compatible flash units
For all the major brands of camera so the Olympus Panasonic Nick on Sony
Canon and Fuji so there is of compatible flash for all of those cameras now this one has both the
And swivel capabilities you've got a wide-angle panel
Which you can swing down to give you the full wide-angle coverage for your 24 millimeter position if using it in the bounce mode
We've got a catch light panel so that
Reflects back and gives you that specular reflection in your subjects eye, which is always nice
I've got a guide number of 36 with ISO 100 with the flash
Fully extended to 105 millimeter so when you back at the 24 millimeter position like guide number drops to about 25
But nevertheless it's still quite a nice unit it's more powerful than the pop-up flash on your bridge cameras anyway
But it is fully TTL compatible, so if I put that on the I've said 200
And lock that down
You turn it on by just holding the power button for two seconds, and it comes on I've got the
Recording stop recording
Got the camera set in the TTL mode so if I take that same shot again
You're not just runs a TTL controller you see on the back of the camera
We've got perfect exposures so with the TT 350
Oh across all the range of the bridge cameras this flash unit will work. It gives it in the bounce
swivel mode to give you that creative lighting that you might want with your flash photography so that unit is now fully compatible with the
SR 200 and
Its features are it's got an inbuilt radio transmitter on 2.4
Gigahertz so this is not an optical transmitter
It's a wireless transmitter, so it gives you that extra benefit of a longer range
And you don't have to have the units in line of sight of the master commander which is a great benefit
If you've got a studio set up
And you don't want to be walking around you can change all the settings from the master unit and the slave units will follow
Now at the moment. There is only a flash unit which is dedicated to the olympus panasonic range there isn't a
Receiver which you can get for the canon and nikon
Range of cameras but sure they are going to develop the receiver for these which enables you to use
Non TTL guns on these units and use them in a TTL mode remotely off camera
We're at the moment for those we need to use an extension cord. We can't use them in the TTL off camera mode
At the moment
With the 360 you probably can because of the wireless flash capability
But the old FL 36 you can't use that off-camera
TTL
So this flash unit the
gt350 roll
Can be an on-camera pop-up flash it can act as a fill source it can act as a TTL master
It can act as a TTL slave so if you have this mounted on camera
Set this up in the master mode you can have another TT through 5000 off camera in the slave mode
And it will communicate wirelessly, or if you wanted to you could communicate optically in spots got the s-1 and s2 optical slave modes
but ideally you'll be using the wireless mode because then you can set up your
One channel and you've got three groups. You can choose from sixteen channels and three groups for however
You want to set up your flash equipment?
So the three groups you can have your master flash for your main light on Group A
You can have your fill light on group build B, and your gonna. Have a hair light on Group C
And control them all from the back of the flash unit without having to go to your
Independent flushing is to set them up
So that gives you a great advantage in the studio much as you can with the young you all
635 optical master controller you can set all the young your flashes up by optical triggering
But this does it by radio control, so it's far more
beneficial for you
with the
gt350 oh the fact that you can use this as a must radio transmitter means that if you
purchase one unit as a master unit and
Another unit which can be your slave unit you've got a must and slave which will communicate over wireless
communication gives you benefits over optical transmission because you don't need to be in line of sight so your
Slave unit if you're using it as a Kalai towards a hair light, and it's not the optical line of sight
Then it will still work because using radio transmission
The flush units are just 60 pounds II so you can get two TT 350 rows
For the price of one nice on i-40 and have a little bit more
functionality in the fact that you've got wireless communication rather than the optical communication that the nice on
I-40 uses so the tt3 5000 ticks all the boxes for both Panasonic and Olympus
Cameras in a later video we're looking more at the setup with the TT 350. Oh and the
transmitter the TT x1 tio
Which gives us that remote control from the camera to our flush in the slave mode, but again?
I'm going to use those in a separate video because there's quite a bit of information
I need to get across so there we are there some updates to Panasonic CS season the way they've now
Incorporated the 5 volt peer pin to provide par for those little pop-up flashes and some equipment
You can now get to give you full compatibility with all the range of bridge cameras
So you're not messing around with different flash units say in the UK this flash unit its own incredible
Just 60 pounds for all that functionality of wireless
Optical bones flash zoom everything built into this unit 460 pounds, so I think that's a real fantastic bargain
I've got a full review of this on my photographic blog and I'm going to put a link to that in the video description below
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