k_michael Posted December 31, 2002 Share Posted December 31, 2002 I walked into Jeff Hirsch's Photcare in NYC yesterday with my G2 and TLA 200 flash hanging from around my neck. Photocare claims that the TLA 200 is not a TTL flash unit becasue it only has two terminals on the mount and not three. Photocare claims that one terminal on the flash is for power and the other just sets shutter speed. A third terminal is needed to properly quench the flash. Is this guy kidding me? The flash has a TTL mode on it. Plus, my chromes came out perfectly exposed without any calculations or flash metering sone at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted December 31, 2002 Share Posted December 31, 2002 Have you tried reading the instruction books that came with the camera and flash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliff_lesergent Posted December 31, 2002 Share Posted December 31, 2002 <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-ca"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0"> <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"> <title>New Page 1</title> </head> <body> <p>TTL metering, and an elegant finish, to boot...</p> <p><a href="http://www.contaxcameras.com/index2.html">http://www.contaxcameras.com/index2.html</a></p> </body> </html> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl smith Posted December 31, 2002 Share Posted December 31, 2002 don't you love sales people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliff_lesergent Posted December 31, 2002 Share Posted December 31, 2002 To be fair now, it was probably just one salesperson who was disputing the flash's TTL capabilities, not the entire Photocare store... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbing Posted December 31, 2002 Share Posted December 31, 2002 A little knowledge is a dangerous thing and some people have less knowledge and are more dangerous than others. I would ask him what he thinks the TTL switch is for on the back of the TLA 200 flash? Is it TTL with some other brand of camera and NOT Contax? Well, as we all know the TLA 200 is fully TTL compatible with the Contax G2 no matter how many terminals there are on the bottom. It is even fully TTL with the Contax T3 point and shoot with the optional SA-2 flash adapter bracket. Just for fun, have a read of this classic poem about another famous "know-it-all": http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/poetry/owl_critic.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hal_bissinger Posted December 31, 2002 Share Posted December 31, 2002 I would say that TTL control has nothing to do with the number of contacts on the foot. If some manufacturer really wanted to, all information could be passed using only one center contact and ground. <P> In actuality, each manufacturer has their own proprietary method for transmitting information between the flash and body and what it appears one manufacturer does has absolutely nothing to do with another.<p> To make an assumption that a flash is not TTL because of the number of contacts just indicates the salespersons lack of knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan_crook1 Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 To be fair now, it was probably just one salesperson who was disputing the flash's TTL capabilities, not the entire Photocare store... the TLA200 worked perfectly on my G2, ttl mode selected. clean flash &camera contacts with isopropyl alcohohol, (from chemist - drug-store)dry, leave for a little while(to ensure it all evaporated). try with good batteries.if you get perfect exposures, everything is aok on ttl setting, compared to manual, maymum power flash, which might have overexposed the same scene, with hotspots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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