Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] New M6 TTL Flash
From: Lucien <lucien@ubi.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:07:29 +0200

Nathan wrote:

>I am not sure I agree with this. 
>I do not use flash on my M6 and have no
>intention of doing so. Given that, 
>even a $200 price difference is too much for me. 
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Arturo wrote:

>Ditto for me Nathan!  This added TTL feature may be a boon to those who use
>flash, a mere yawn to those of us who don't.  I think the price of the current
>M6 won't see any undue depreciation.  I thought most of the M users were
>existing light photographers, but Leica must know otherwise.
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The only reason I can see for using TTL flash with a M6 is for portrait fill-in.
With a 1/50 top synchro it's almost impossible.


1/50 at f11 with Kodachrome 25 ! 
;-)

Lucien