Thanks for posting the photos. What you have there is a studio flash with another Morris slave flash where the modeling light should be.
The Morris unit is a low end slave designed to be screwed into a standard \"Edison\" lamp fixture. They can be useful in interior shooting with flash to match the color temp of table lamps, recessed fixtures, etc. and for hobbyists trying to do flash lighting on the cheap. It should not be used as a modeling lamp in that flash. Remove it and use a regular 60W tungsten bulb.
The Spiratone studio flash appears to have an optical slave cell above the power cord, but your camera\'s pop-up flash always fires a pre-flash and will not trigger it in sync. The pre-flash will fire the Spiratone before the shutter opens.
The presence of the 6V battery is something I haven\'t seen before but I\'d assume its required for the control circuits on the flash. The required battery may not still be available.
Nov 11, 2009 at 10:17 AM
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