Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I found several places on my recent tour of Europe with a "no photos/no videos" policy and in each case there was a shop near the exit with a large selection of slides, prints and videos for sale. As to the validity of the reason of flash degrading the artifacts, The National Museum in Prague required a small fee to be paid for a sticker I got to put on my shirt that permitted me to photograph without restriction...ostensibly I could have whipped out a set of Normans and blitzed away to my heart's content. In a couple of places I just said to myself, I came all this way and I'm not going home empty-handed. The M6 is *great* for that. You can see the LED meter arrows from a couple feet away if you hold it just right. That and using the DOF scale and a wide-angle lens, and I shot a lot of film holding the camera at waist-level tripping the shutter with my thumb. Thanks to the quiet shutter and lack of tell-tale winding motor I fired away standing just a few feet from the tour-guide.