Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I wonder if the M9 does the same thing. I?ll have to check it. Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you. On Sep 14, 2014, at 7:23 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote: > Just back from Yosemite (hopefully an image or two later...). Went with my > wife (Jane) and her high school friend who now lives in Australia. Her > friend went to Yosemite with her family every summer growing up (she > remembers the real fire falls off Glacier Point from the Glacier Point > Lodge (which burned down in 1969)... So it really wasn't a photo trip, and > the light was awful with the smoke from the Little Yosemite Valley fires > and temperatures during the day of 90deg... > > Anyway, to the point. We saw the smoke from the fire in Little Yosemite > Valley and went to Washburn Point so I could take some pictures at sundown > + to get the glow that appears after the sun goes down. > > So my surprise was the 60sec exposure limit with the M. I became completely > baffled when I pumped the ISO up, put the setting on B and the exposure cut > off at less than 60 seconds despite holding down the shutter release on the > cable. > > Going back to the room later and reading the manual, I found that the 60 > seconds is for base ISO of 200. Pump the ISO to 400, and the time limit for > exposure goes to 30 seconds. Pump it again to 800 and the exposure time > limit drops again to 16 seconds; ISO 1600=8seconds and so forth. > > So really it doesn't matter which ISO you use, you will not increase the > actual exposure at all. > Though I understand what's going on, I feel a bit cheated/mislead... > > Just an FYI for M users who may not have discovered this. > Bob > > -- > Bob Adler > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information