Vivitar 283 with Canon A70

Archived from groups: rec.photo.digital (More info?)

"Paul Mitchum" <usenet@mile23.c0m> wrote in

> Just a guess, but it could be that when you put the Canon flash on the
> Canon camera, the camera knows to automatically adjust the white balance
> to 'flash.' So try manually setting the white balance to flash for the
> Vivitar and see what happens.

The Vivtar 283 is not connected to the Canon A70 in any way. Same as the
Canon 155A, which is about the same vintage.

Both are triggered by a small slave, which fires off the on-board flash.
The integral (on-board) flash is turned down to a min output, just enough to
trigger the bigger flash. This way only the big flash controls the exposure
with its own sensor.

Regards,

Rich