Can I use my Nikon SB24 on my M6 or R4?

The SB 24 has a auto-non-TTL mode. Will it electrically couple to the M6 or R4 and work in a basic no-frills mode?

Not with the M6 TTL. Others okay.

In manual or non-TTL-auto modes any of the Nikon strobes with

standard shoes (i.e. those not meant strictly for the F3) including

the SB24-28 will work perfectly on any R or M camera, including the

M6TTL and R8. On the R6.2 it will even light the flash ready light

in the finder. The only thing the Nikon strobes won't do is TTL.

I cannot comment specifically on the SB-24 myself but others

have reported on Leica-users that, with the M6-TTL, some recent

Nikon flashes will cause the camera's batteries to drain quickly

and the flash unit to get hot. Kaiser makes hot shoe adapters

that fit between the camera and the flash which block the TTL

circuts.

 

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Cheers

I don't know about the SB24 but the SB-28 that I have causes the

batteries on my M6TTL to drain in a jiffy if I slide it on directly.

 

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I don't use it directly in the hot shoe, but rather use a pc cord

"spacer" $10 gizmo between the foot of the flash and the hot shoe.

Basically, its a hot shoe that slides into a "cold" or "hot" shoe,

and makes the connection via a PC cord into the PC sych socket of the

camera. You could do the same with the SB24

 

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Too much potential for shorted/mismatched contacts on both units

otherwise.

OK, my M6 is not the TTL flash model. It has only one contact, in

the center. So far, it sounds like I'd be OK with it on the M6 and

R4. Unless I overlooked something, all the cautions appear to refer

to the M6 TTL model. Thanks for all the help.