[Leica] I didn't know this...

[Herbert Kanner]

I wonder if the M9 does the same thing. I’ll have to check it.

Herbert Kanner
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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
> 
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