Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Henry Ambrose wrote: ><Snip> > What I want from the Leica TTL is equal (or near) performance accuracy > wise to the Nikon. The trouble I have with the non TTL M6s and little > auto flashes is lack of choice in aperture and film speed and not > wonderful exposure accuracy. I may have to use f4 or 5.6 which hampers > fill flash work because the ambient exposure time is driven down too > slow. Basically what I have now works for full power flash which I pretty > well despise. It'd be great to shoot at f2 or 2.8 and 1/15-1/50 with 400 > speed print film and use -2 or even -3 to fill shadows and add to the > exposure in general. In other words - available light shooting (indoors) > with almost imperceptible fill. Just enough fill to sparkle things up a > bit and help with color rendition. > > The specs say the TTL M6 and the SF20 should do all this but I'd like to > hear from someone who has experience with it. Rather than perform a $2000 > experiment! > > Henry I"m getting total acuracy and a full range of options with my Metz 32-z2 and the sca-2000 adaptor giving me TTL flash. It is almost not too big for the camera. http://www.metz.de/mecablitz/eng/produkte/m_meca_gb_ihv_ges.html mark rabiner