We have this Noaltron flash gun and are trying to figure out how to use it. The bottommost switch with the little colored dots is particularly puzzling. Something to do with color? Anyone know what we would use that switch for?
I think so, I vaguely remember seeing one on my mom's old (read: very old) flash that she used with my dad's Zeiss Ikon Contessa (rangefinder, still works like a charm!).If the bottommost switch changes the color temperature, I wonder what the color dot combinations designate. Presumably two red dots would be the warmest. Any ideas?
Narcosynthesis, thank you so much for your help!! I hadn't even noticed that the colored dots are keyed to the slider at the top! I'm really excited to try out the flash, but so far have no way to trigger it with the camera. I can get it to flash by pressing the test button, but I don't have a hot shoe adapter to connect its cable to my Canon XSi or to my husband's Pentax K100D. However, it sounds as though perhaps that would be a bad idea anyway, if it really is capable of frying a modern camera. So am I out of luck with this flash?
Narcosynthesis, thank you so much for your help!! I hadn't even noticed that the colored dots are keyed to the slider at the top! I'm really excited to try out the flash, but so far have no way to trigger it with the camera. I can get it to flash by pressing the test button, but I don't have a hot shoe adapter to connect its cable to my Canon XSi or to my husband's Pentax K100D. However, it sounds as though perhaps that would be a bad idea anyway, if it really is capable of frying a modern camera. So am I out of luck with this flash?
Honestly besides the fact that it may possibly fry your camera, that flash has a rather low guide number of 45, so I wonder if it even puts out enough light to be practically useful.
A guide number of 45 is a fair amount of power for an on camera flash...
To put it in perspective, the Canon 430ex has a guide number of 43, and the top model in the range 580ex has a guide number of 58, so 45 is definitely not lacking. If you look at the internal flash on a modern DSLR you are looking at a guide number in the ball park of 10/13ish
That totally depends on if the guide number is in feet or meters. I've never heard of Noaltron, but my money would be on the GN in feet.