Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6/TTL
From: thomas boehm <toboehm@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 14:49:56 -0700 (PDT)

- ---Alastair Firkin  wrote: ".... the need for fill flash in
> "low light" situations. Comment that professionals use fill flash in
low
> light, and need the added security of a slow syncronization speed to
allow
> the effects of combining ambient light, then comment on how the
vibration
> free shutter of the M6 is important in obtaining good sharp images
at low
> sync speeds, and go on to talk about the advantages of the
rangefinder in
> low light situations. Clearly the M6 TTL is not meant to fill in
shadows in
> "normal" lighting conditions ----- you have the R8 for that ;-)

thanks alistair - thats the point! 

all the lamentations about "the missing 1/250 sync-speed" on a M6 are
quite redundant. annother (electronic) shutter? no thanks!

thomas böhm, imst, austria




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