Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tom: It probably has a second cell pointed at the film for the flash circuit. Robert At 07:22 PM 9/2/98 -0400, you wrote: >Luggers: > >I've been sitting back waiting for someone to bring this up, and it hasn't, >so allow me to raise on point. > >With the current meter spot on the M6 a TTL flash will be all but useless. >Now it's a spot meter. You meter where you know the hot spot is hitting the >right tones, then you compose and shoot. Try that with a flash. > >You would change your composition to meet the needs of the meter, and you >can only get a TTL reading from the spot on the shutter curtain at the >moment of the exposure. > >A plain old center weighted meter would be better, but those of us who have >come to love TTL flash have grown acustom to MATRIX metering. > >Here's my point. Leica has to have figured this out, so my guess is that >the new TTL body comes with a new metering pattern(s), which would make it >truly an upgrade. Or they haven't figured it out, and then . . . yawn. > >Tom >================================== >Thomas Kachadurian >WEB PAGE: http://members.aol.com/kachaduria > > > >