Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:34 AM 5/21/97 -0800, you wrote: >Jim, > >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. > >BTW, was in large bookstore (SuperCrown) the other day with a little >free time and scoured the cooking section for one of your books. I went >hungry. Is your name on covers? > >Donal Philby >San Diego > Donal, About five years ago I shot a wedding (a very very close friend... it had to be for me to do a wedding!) with the R6. It was outside in Pacific Grove CA, mid-day, bright sun. I used a Mecablitz 60CT-4 potato masher. I set the R6 shutter on flash (1/100th) and took a generalized incident meter reading. I set the f-stop at what the meter indicated opposite 1/100th. I think it was between f/11 & f/16. I should have been... The R6 is on manual. I used an Agfa print film, something like "Portrait," asa 125. I set the Metz flash to TTL and started shooting. Generally I didn't touch anything. For close-ups of faces, I was going to change the camera asa to 250 and for large groups change it to asa to 50. This was to fool the TTL system. Most of the time I forgot to change the asa. I just shot. I shot 10 rolls and I have to tell you... the pictures were absolutely stunning! The lighting, the quality, everything was right-on. My friends couldn't believe how good they were. Neither could I! Not a single bad exposure or bad fill, in 360 exposures. We (my wife & I) gave them an album and the negatives for their wedding gift. I don't know if it was dumb luck, the R6 TTL flash capability, the Metz TTL ability, the film, or what... perhaps the combination of it all. But the formula sure worked! Yes... I tested it a week before the wedding and saw that it had the potential for working properly. I was just blown away that I got 100%. About our books. Up until just recently, we have been doing the distributing ourselves, mainly to book and gift stores is the Carmel, Monterey, & Pacific Grove area. We haven't started distributing our San Francisco books yet. Some of the Carmel stores sell the SFO books. A few weeks ago, Sunbelt Publications asked if they could distribute our books. We said yes and signed a contract. We really don't know yet where the books are going via Sunbelt. These books are 6" X 9" (landscape) format, case bound, 4C full bleed covers, 30 pages of regional area 4C full bleed photographs opposite recipe pages in the cookbooks and opposite address book (diary) pages in the Address books. My wife and I are publishing a series of books, "for the love of ..." The four books we have already published are: for the love of CARMEL, MONTEREY, and PACIFIC GROVE, a Scenic Natural Cookbook a Scenic Address Book for the love of SAN FRANCISCO, a Scenic Natural Cookbook a Scenic Address Book And we are currently working on "for the love of WINE COUNTRY..." Wine Country, for these books, is Napa Valley, CA. Our names are on the covers. The Cookbook and Address Book of a particular area have the same pictures inside. The covers are different. In the near future I will have our web site ready which will show the books for those who are interested. In the books, I give credit to Leica as the camera system I used for all of the photographs. In the address books, on the last page, I also list the camera, lens, filter, and film used for each photograph. I'm sorry you went hungry Donal... Books are hard to digest anyway! The Tofu ink might be OK but the cellulose will give you gas! Jim ps. I just picked this up from the stockphoto list. Geographic fans, check it out... very interesting. http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/CUTTING/t000045064.html