Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:14 PM 10/5/98 -0700, you wrote: >So other than automatically taking into consideration things like >conversion filters, and that the camera meter sees the actual framed >subject, I cannot see any big advantage between the camera metering the >flash, or the flash metering the flash. I remember my Sunpack has always >been dead-on. And the rest of the camera is (almost) the same. Same sync >speed (1/50th). Jim, Not sure you saw my other message, but besides filter conversion, using all apertures (especially wide open, which I don't see on any auto flash) and not being fooled by the angle of the sensor on a flash unit like your sunpak, what would you want? Juggle and whistle Dixie? Why wait? Upgrade now, upgrade in two years to the electronic M7. That's my bet. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Where reason has failed, fallibility may yet succeed. -- George Soros