Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I received an email about M6 TTL flash compatibility. He has an early M6 TTL # 2467714. He writes: "suddenly my old faithful Braun 380 flash refused to fire, then later in the dayit fired again (nothing wrong with the flash, checked that at once) Confronted with this, through my dealer, Leica said: "oh, yes we know that some older flash units will have problems, because we have changed the specifications of the X sync. to a new standard" My dealer was mad because he had to find out this way, and I was mad because the first (but unfortunately not the last) crack in my pleasure of finally owning a Leica had developed. I insisted that Leica fixed the problem, especially since it says in the manual that you can use "any proprietary flash" no mention of any new and different standard for the (old fashioned, I thought) X connector. The solution was that Leica supplied me which am ugly, cheap looking conversion box slightly smaller than the old MR meter, " does anyone else know of this problem, or what causes it? Stephen Gandy