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?

-- Bob Fleischman (RFXMAIL@prodigy.net), January 03, 2001

Answers

Not with the M6 TTL. Others okay.

-- Joe Buechler (jbuechler@toad.net), January 04, 2001.

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.

-- Jay (infinitydt@aol.com), January 04, 2001.

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.

Cheers

-- John Collier (jbcollier@home.com), January 04, 2001.

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.

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

Too much potential for shorted/mismatched contacts on both units otherwise.

-- Mani Sitaraman (bindumani@pacific.net.sg), January 05, 2001.

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.

-- Bob Fleischman (RFXMAIL@prodigy.net), January 05, 2001.