General Description Of The Cordless Slave Mode - Metz SCA 3083-M2 digital Manual

2. General description of the cordless
slave mode
The cordless slave mode permits remote, delay-
free triggering of one or more additional slave flash
units (mecablitz).
Advantages for the photographer:
• Flexible operation of several flash units
• Does not require a sync cable connection to the
camera (cordless operation)
• 3-dimensional lighting of the subject
The slave unit is triggered by a light pulse from the
master flash unit (controller) mounted on the
camera or by the built-in camera flash.
The red-eye reduction preflash function must
not be activated on the controller or on the
camera when the mecablitz is used as a slave.
For system inherent reasons slave mode oper-
ation of the mecablitz is not possible in combi-
nation with stroboscopic flash mode, high-
speed synchronisation (FP or HSS flash mode),
Canon A-TTL and E-TTL, Minolta-ADI or
Nikon–3D flash mode. If necessary, these flash
modes must be deactivated on the camera,
the controller's SCA adapter or on the control-
ler flash unit (see the corresponding operating
instructions).
The controller and the slave must be ready for
firing at the time of exposure. The flash-ready indi-
cator on the flash unit lights up when the mecablitz
is ready for firing. Additionally, the emitter for the
AF measuring beam will flash (not on mecablitz
32 Z-2). Some mecablitz models feature an inbuilt
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