Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Have you used flash fill with the R6? If so, is the compensation effort >an awkward challenge? >Thinking about getting one eventually for backup and for a polaroid back >to live on. Hello Donal, I used to use 2 R6es and an R4sp. I don't remember there being any way other than manual control to handel the flash. I was using a Metz 36CTIII (I think this is the right designation-it has been 5 years afterall). If you are trying to get that nice non-fill flashed fill flash photo like you get on your Nikon stuff -- forget it. Even though I now use Canon for my SLR stuff I still think Nikon rules in the flash system game. That particular metz did allow TTL flash control, but I could not figure out how to get it to automatically underexpose like the Nikon SB 24 did, and I did not trust it on chrome as it was almost always hot, but then agian I was barely 25 and stupid. However; I loved the R system. The glass was exceptional--it is made of metal!!! Imagine that in this day and age of plastic. Remember the post I made about my equipment failures and having 2 of 3 bodies go down? Well the 2 broken bodies were Nikon, the working body was a Leica R6. I used these cameras for 2 years working as a staffer for a daily in Atlanta, so you know the kinda work out I gave them. I would still have them had our paper not folded and I had to have money. I still miss those cameras, especially the glass but I am glad to have my M's now as they are turely fun to use. By the way do you know a man named George Graves? He was a reporter with the Hartford Courant(sp?) in the 70's then agian in the late 80's. I had to shoot his photo for one of the magazines I shoot for today and it hit me after I had left his office you may have known each other. Take care, Harrison McClary hmphoto@delphi.com http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto