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

[Robert Adler]

I'm learning...
:-)

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > 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
> >>
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> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
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Bob Adler