Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeff Moore wrote: >Sometimes, not constantly but often = >enough that the M6's limitation frosts my shorts, a picture in hard sunlight = >would just look much better with a little flash fill. And if it's brigh= t out = >and the film isn't dead slow, that 1/50th sync speed is seriously suboptimal: = >you lose any possibility of choosing a DOF-reducing aperture. If the M6= E has = >a flash-sync speed of 1/250th or better (is anything better possible wit= h a = >focal-plane shutter?) I'll be there in line at my camera store. The = >possibility of choosing aperture-priority automation occasionally would = be <gravy. That's one of the main reason I had to switch from the R7 to the R8. (BTW a taller ,because of red-eyes, but smaller METZ flash will be great for portrait) And also why I'm consedering (from time to time) to buy a Contax G2 with = a 90/2,8. (Only for portrait, but I'm not sure that the AF is fast and consistent enough for that purpose) Lucien BELGIUM