Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:05 PM 6/5/96 GMT, you wrote: >I dont want to compare SLR and a Leica M6. This is not the same concept. This >is not the same use too. >-Loading the film I don't mind loading film in my M6. It's become second nature. But rewinding is a bother, because I leave the leader out, and sometimes it gets caught half way through the gate and makes it difficult to remove the film. >-Flash TTL. The Lecaistes dislike fill in. It is understandable because the >M6 can't make an easy fill in. >Fill in is beautifull, if you use the good mix, between Flash light and >natural light. I agree. Nikon does it best, Canon pretty good, R7 Leica is rudimentary. But it works well most of the time. Some day it would be nice to have ttl/fill flash with the M7. But that's years off I'm willing to bet. >-Exposure. The exposure band (a white circle on the shutter) of the M6 is >very very accurate. A specular reflection, and your are under-exposed. This >virtual circle is not the same when you change your lens and the frames are >an approximation. The solution, an hand exposure meter ? No, the circle in the viewfinder is the same, relative to the frame of the lens you are using. It's the same in relation to the side of the frame for the lens in use at the time. You just have to know where it is. Thirty second with the owners manual should settle that. But even so, the M6 meter is very accurate. Or, I should say, if you are experiencd at metering, it doesn't take very long to learn to use the M6's meter effectively. Using a hand meter, might be appropriate in some situations, but it slows you down in quickly changing situatoins and light. ========================== Eric Welch Grants Pass Daily Courier