Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So you can manually set aperture to say F4 and then shutter to 1.8 secs. and TTL will work? Which flash are you using? - -----Original Message----- From: Eric Welch [mailto:ewelch@ponyexpress.net] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 1999 10:43 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: R8 and Flash metering >BTW, Doesn't the R8 lack the ability for shutter dragging with Flash? IOW, >using the TTL mode of the R8 you can set the shutter speed camera sets the >aperture, or you set the aperture camera then sets the shutter speed, but I >believe it lacks the ability for you to set both manually and use the flash. >Is this correct? A friend of mine who used to use Leica Rs at weddings fpor >Photojournalism told me this. He now uses a Canon EOS-1n because of this. >Just wondering if its true. You friend is mistaken. He gave up the R8 for the wrong reason. :-) You can use TTL flash in all modes except F - which is the flash meter mode. And if you want to "drag" the shutter (and this is in the manual I think) you just set second curtain flash sync. (which is on the body, so you can do it with even studio flash, unlike Nikon and Canon which put this function in the flash itself) and the camera will pick the appropriate shutter speed for the lighting conditions, rather than set the shutter speed at 1/250, when it's in auto modes. In manual, it works as you describe. I do believe other than matrix metering, I've never found a camera that can handle flash so well in so many different ways. Now if they could only come up with Matrix in TTL flash. :-) Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?