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

[philippe.amard]

Le 15 sept. 14 à 17:21, Robert Adler a écrit :

> I'm learning...
> :-)

German?

;-)

Ph


>
> 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
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Leica Users Group.
>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more  
>>>> information
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Leica Users Group.
>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> photo at frozenlight.eu
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Leica Users Group.
>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Bob Adler
>
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information

One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible  
to the eye. Antoine de Saint Exupéry in Le Petit Prince.
NO ARCHIVE