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

[Herbert Kanner]

Yes, I discovered this, and the spare battery arrived a couple of days ago.
Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

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On Sep 15, 2014, at 4:05 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Herb, always carry a spare battery for the X100S as one minute you're looking at three bars in the battery indicator, the next two, and, almost immediately, the red light flashes, and the battery dies. This always happens to me when a parade of curvaceous dancing girls gyrate past me dressed in outrageous colours, all the while blowing kisses at me. Ahh, maybe that was a dream, but bring a spare battery. Otherwise it's a great camera.
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> Douglas
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herbert Kanner" <kanner at acm.org>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 8:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] I didn't know this...
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> 
> Well, the M6 ain’t a digital computer. You could think of the exposure metering as equivalent to an analog computer. So, regard modern digital cameras as bloody computers which will do all the crazy things that the firmware programmers can think up.
> 
> My brand new X100S is an example of the designers of the firmware going nuts. I really went through two full charges of its battery just trying to figure out how to set it up the simple way I wanted. What was really aggravating was that sometimes enabling one feature would disable another as a side effect, and it could later take an hour to discover which unnecessary feature disabled a desired one.
> 
> Otherwise, it’s a great camera.
> 
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
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> 
> 650-326-8204
> 
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
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> On Sep 14, 2014, at 7:37 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> My M6 does not act this way.....
>> 
>> Still, something to keep on file.
>> 
>> Frank Filippone
>> Red735i at verizon.net
>> 
>> On Sep 14, 2014, at 4:23 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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