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I have been on an obsessive journey to find the perfect flash for shooting rangefinder film cameras (Bessa R2m, Zeiss Ikon ZM, Leica M2, etc).  These cameras have PC-sync ports or hot shoes,  they lack TTL flash. Unfortunately, the perfect flash does not exist. What would the perfect flash look like? The perfect flash should be a "thyristor" automatic flash , which means the flash has an onboard light sensor to automatically dispense the correct amount of light to produce the correct exposure (given you set the camera and lens accordingly) This is important because the cameras im interested in don't support TTL flash (where the camera can tell the flash how much light to emit) The perfect flash should have several thyristor settings The perfect flash should have a reminder table for the settings, going up to at least ISO 800. The perfect flash should be compact and low to the camera , like the Contax TLA200 atop Contax G2, or Fuji EF-X20 atop X100, pictured below The per