I bet most people interested in using wireless external flash have been inpatient and used the $20 adapter to get the flashes with old hotshoe adapted to 6. I have Nex-6 and Nex-7 + a 43AM and Metz 58 AF-2 so I'm always adapting to at least one camera. Personally I prefer the old hotshoe, the quick release is quite nice.
I can control the Metz using the NEX-6 pop-up flash.
I think they'd sell more of their 43 if they'd let the camera act as commander. They would've sold one to me.
Nope. You have to get the HVL-F20M flash ($149) to act as a wireless commander. The worst part is acting as a commander/controller the -20 flash is only used to send control pulses to the bigger flashes.. You do get TTL flash metering though.
Yes, I am. However, none of my cameras is equipped with MIS. I hope to hear if the use of the flash in combination with the ADP-AMA is a viable option on cameras with the Alpha hotshoe.
Correct. If you want to do that, the Metz 28, 52 or 58 are your only options and those would be manual flash (which works fine for me in most situations.). The Metz 28 is only wireless-it can't be easily mounted to the camera. It's good for macro lighting.
One of my all time favourite features of Sony cameras taken off the table & the penalty is even greater when you can't trigger a handheld or remote flash with a NEX sized body. Where small size & portability is important, having to carry yet another flash for a trigger is pain on top of the tax!
My HVL-F43AM manual has that kind of diagram too, but nowhere does it specify what camera one can use as a commander. I have not seen the 43M manual, but I'd be willing to bet that one cannot use Nex-6 (or any Nex for that matter) built-in flash as commander, at minimum a HVL-F20M/AM is needed on the camera as the built-in flash on the Nexes cannot for some reason send any wireless flash control codes. As the problem is in the camera body this cannot be fixed by new flash, no matter how advanced.
I meant the Metz "Servo mode" too when referring to "stupid manual mode", but did not remember the correct term when writing that . If the flash has that then it can obviously triigered with any built-in flash too. Lot's of nice stuff on those Metz flashes, I bought my 58 Af-2 for high speed stuff only (it has shortest flash duration of 1/33000 with GN 3,5) to figure out that it can can do quite a lot stuff that a 43AM cannot. And it has more clearance than a 43AM when used with Nex-7.
