Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Classic M6 or M6 TTL - which do you prefer
From: David Binder <dbinder@sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:48:06 -0400
References: <200010242208.PAA01282@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>

Just set the film speed on the SF20 flash and snap away. The force (TTL)
will be with you. And if the aperture set on your _lens_ is reasonably
open, you won't limit your flash range.

- -David Binder (the SF20 manual badly needs to be rewritten)


 
> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:31:36 -0400
> From: Denice Martone <denice.martone@nyu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Classic M6 or M6 TTL - which do you prefer
> Message-ID: <p0500190bb61b858e5122@[128.122.171.234]>
> References: <20ECC963A2B2D3118B4A009027DCE8D0A8A9F5@equity.patents.caltech.edu>
> 
> At 3:23 PM -0700 10/23/00, Cochran, Adam wrote:
> 
> Thanks. Let me try to think this through.  So, if my subject is four
> feet away, I set the SF20 for distance, and it tells me which
> aperture to use on the lens -- what if the meter tells me something
> different when I focus on the subject -- should I change the lens
> aperture and trust the SF20 to let in the requisite light?
> 
> Denice
> 
> >Denice,
> >
> >My understanding is that you set the SF20 with the ISO and the distance, and
> >it gives you the aperture for the M6TTL.
> >
> >Adam