Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Being in the photo biz for 50 years, you all must know that I knew (know) the answer to my own original question. I put it out to see if anyone other than me, thought that the M6TTL with it's basackwards dial and three (four) leds, was a fumble on the part of Leica marketing. No one has yet come up with a compelling reason to buy one. Perhaps as the first M6 if you've never owned an M camera before. My large Metz allows me full and total control, any f/stop, any ratio, whatever. But it cannot speed-up the sync speed. 1/50th sec. I hope Leica recognizes that this M6TTL is sort of an "ugly duckling" among M cameras and moves to the next lever rather soon. Jim At 07:43 AM 10/7/98 -0500, you wrote: >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 > http://www.photoaccess.com Jim Brick, ASMP, BIAA Photo Access (650) 470-1132 Visual Impressions Publishing Visual Impressions Photography (408) 296-1629