[Leica] Odd digital M flash behavior

[dstella1 at ameritech.net (Dante Stella)]

Mark - 

Actually, I've been there and done that - the SB-800 is great but it (1) has 
less power than a Metz 54 and (2) tends underexpose a little in A mode.  But 
it's a valid solution and one that I may revisit due to the smaller 
opportunity for weird preflash stuff.

I completely agree with the rest  - bouncing up and downlighting at high 
power is the way to go because it looks like an overhead light and tends to 
put the shadows in places where they are not offensive.  And for a 
well-composed shot, it's always preferable (at least to me) to have more 
things in focus.

Does anyone know if the M8/M9 synch circuit can handle a Vivitar 283, old 
style?

Best New Years!
Dante

On Dec 28, 2009, at 1:59 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>> Did you not try the flash unit with the camera at sometime before hand? 
>> Once
>> again, if I were one to use a flash unit with any camera, I'd find out how
>> well it worked with the camera before hand under any circumstance. 
>> Certainly
>> considering I may not have used it before. I would make at least a half
>> dozen snaps to make sure it was ready for use at the time of the ceremony 
>> or
>> event I was going to shoot!
>> 
>> In the end I do trust you managed some good images considering your
>> explanation of the elderly gentleman in question?
>> cheers,
>> ted
>> 
> 
> 
> If it was me I could easily have bounced my sb800 off the ceiling.
> I do that all the time.
> Making for the same modeling that ceiling lighting would.
> And which I don't think is really so bad.  Down lighting.
> But at f 8 not f 2. It would look like the real light in the room.
> And with a blazingly fast in effect shutter speed instead of squeeze and
> pray shudder speeds.
> 
> The speed in effect  becoming the flash duration.
> 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
> 
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