Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The same cell can do just fine - like in Pentax LX - I do not know how = many cells the new M6 has, though. The spot on the shutter curtain has no ef= fect because flash is measured of the film - with shutter open. Raimo photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen my=F6s suomeksi - ---------- > From: Robert G. Stevens <robsteve@istar.ca> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] TTL flash on the M6 > Date: 03. syyskuuta 1998 2:58 >=20 > Tom: >=20 > It probably has a second cell pointed at the film for the flash circu= it.=20 >=20 > Robert >=20 > 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 hitt= ing the > >right tones, then you compose and shoot. Try that with a flash.=20 > > > >You would change your composition to meet the needs of the meter, an= d you > >can only get a TTL reading from the spot on the shutter curtain at t= he > >moment of the exposure.=20 > > > >A plain old center weighted meter would be better, but those of us w= ho 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 m= ake it > >truly an upgrade. Or they haven't figured it out, and then . . . yaw= n. > > > >Tom > >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > >Thomas Kachadurian > >WEB PAGE: http://members.aol.com/kachaduria > > > > > > > >