Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>As I think all those following this thread knows, I am the one that started >the thread on higher flash sync and one of the louder requesters of this >feature. > >For the record, I am new to shooting with the M6, but since I have had the >camera (four weeks now), I have not had the desire to touch my Nikon F5. I >only have the desire to learn to shoot with the Leica. I fully understand >that things I had done in the past will other types of camera have to be >done differently, if at all. The next time you think you HAVE TO HAVE that whiz-bang feature try it with your Leica first. I thought the same as you until I tried it. Surprise! Old manual methods still work. Need a little fill outdoors? Put some slow film in the back and a 2 stop ND filter on the lens. You're under 1/50th now. Make your picture. (You gotta do a little math unless you own a TTL camera) If you must keep 800 speed color neg in your camera I guess you are in trouble. But, if you really NEED to make that fill flash picture isn't changing film pretty easy? Whats easier and cheaper, paying for and carrying a complete F5 outfit or changing a roll of film? > >I would like to have a higher shutter release on the M6, That would be called a "Softie" several of the LUG dealers have them. >but the thing that >is the most difficult to get use to NOT having when doing street photography >is the shifting of the lens and film plane. Doing street photography with a >Leica is TOTALLY different then what I had done in the past with a LF Field >camera! > >Sam Henry