[Leica] Odd digital M flash behavior

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Dante asked:
>>> What I got last night, repeatedly, was a full-power preflash followed by 
>>> a
> "normal" preflash.  And this was always on the first shot after the camera
> was turned on, even if you gave it a second to recognize the flash.
>
> Anyone else experience this?  It didn't look like low batteries in the
> flash or the camera.  My wife (being ever so practical) thinks this can be
> solved by "buy[ing] a Nikon [D700]."  But I am not one to let
> troubleshooting go so easily.<<<<<<<<<<<,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Nichols" responded:

> Hi Dante,
> Simple solution.  With Leica lenses, just forget the flash. ;-)<<<<


Hi Dante,
Jim is quite right! FORGET THE FLASH!
It is quite simple really... forget the flash  I don't even own one and 
rarely if ever used flash with any of my M cameras over the years. Have I 
been burned? Yep on a couple of occaisions, but no big deal. If you can see 
it .... YOU CAN SHOOT IT! :-)

All my Christmas happy snaps beginning to end were as "you see it, were 
motivated, "SHOOT!" And they were fine. Down loaded with LR, fiddled and 
into PhotoShop second look.... print! And not one lost frame other than for 
a couple because I hadn't set the ASA to 320.

Go for broke with your M8, shoot a ton of images with the flash buried under 
a pile of rocks!! This will keep you from digging them up in panic.. :-)

cheers,
ted