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You might like to look at the Nikon SB-29s - comes with 52, 62 and 72mm mounting rings plus the flash head can be mounted on the front of the control unit; it has TTL metering for Nikon film bodies but manual for everything else - M, M/4, M/32 power levels with left-right switchable/adjustable, modelling light. The "s" is better than the original SB-29 which did not have M/32 and it was difficult to avoid over-exposure in some close-up situations.

 

Works fine, but metering in manual mode will be a matter of trial and error; before Nikon's new close-up flash (SU-800/multiple SB-R200s) came out, exposure bracketing was essential.

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I cannot find one for Leica R. Any ideas?

 

According to Brian Bower's book "Leica Reflex Photography" Minolta used to make one at one time for the R5-R7 - I guess you might just find an old s/h one if that is the R camera you have.

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I have one. It is a dedicated modified Mecablitz for R-series cameras that use the Metz interface. It was made by Schreyer & Angly in Ochsenfurt, Germany and did cost big bucks.

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The SB29 as stated before would work in the manual mode.

The Minolta ring flash for some reason was short lived and if I am correct it had some issues.

Of course using it with the DMR easly could balance the flash to where it needed.

If interested I would part with the Macromat.

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The modified Minolta ringflash was SCA300-series (will work TTL with R5, RE, R6, R6.2 and R7). It will not fit an SCA3000-series module and will not work in TTL on the R8 or R9. That's even if you can find one. Furthermore, TTL flash is unavailable on the DMR, so all you get from the SCA3502 module is information transfer but not TTL metering. The only way to make a TTL flash metering with the DMR is to use the "f" function on the body. In that case, any ringflash is workable, albeit slowly, as the "f"-mode exposure is arrived at in 2 steps. If the ringflash has only one power setting, exposure variance will need to be made with the aperture. The Sunpak ringflashes (discontinued I believe, but nonetheless ubiquitous on the secondhand market) have multiple power settings, and cost far less than Nikon's ring lights (which BTW aren't true ringlights, they use 4 separate flashtubes.) There are also ringlights that are not flashes, which are inexpensive and allow one to preview the result. I've seen them on eBay and at B&H.

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