Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Do you know what small thyristors they are using? Anything with small f stop choices (2, 1.4) with iso 400? thanks Steve - ---------- >From: Donal Philby <donalphilby@earthlink.net> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] New M6 with TTL >Date: Sun, Aug 30, 1998, 3:02 AM > >Andre Jean Quintal wrote: >> At 09:59 +0000 28/08/98, Donal Philby wrote: >> >Even the close ups of glasses of Pepsi or Coke are shot with strobe >> >systems synced to go off at 24 frames per second to get the crispness >> >that 1/30th of a second can't record on film. >> >> 1/ Is there a place on the Internet where i coould >> read up on this ? I was aware of the notion but never >> saw it demonstrated as in "Sequence A" VS "Sequence B" >> (strobe, no strobe). > >Andre, I don't know of any. Check a film book. I know the strobes can >be rented in Los Angeles. They are not high powered, but then only used >for close ups anyway. >> >> 2/ Don's post describes an EXCELLENT reason why >> the new LEICA M6 / TTL is going to be "hot news" >> in photo shops. It opens up a lot of possibilities. >> Even the reluctant conservative "classics lovers" >> will find themselves carried over when they >> see how simple much more sophisticated lighting >> schemes can be implemented with a TTL flash >> solution. >> >> Then: MULTI flash TTL : Ho! Ho! Ho! > > Metz already has cordless ttl for multiples with the 50 and 40Mz. But >seeing the work of people such as David alan Harvey using M6s and little >thyristor strobes is exciting. I have been doing more and more with >less and less big strobes and more with acentuating existing. Partly it >is style, partly not wanting to carry 300 pounds of strobes and grip >gear, partly finding that once you start lighting with big stuff, you >have to light it all. But the little things can pull out a photo where >it would have been boring or ugly before. > >donal >-- >Donal Philby >San Diego >www.donalphilby.com >