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

[Nathan Wajsman]

Ze German engineerz know vat is best for you, yes. You should not expose
so much, no.

Op Ma, 15 september, 2014 09:10, schreef Herbert Kanner:
> I wonder if the M9 does the same thing. I’ll have to check it.
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> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
>
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>
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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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Nathan Wajsman
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