Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner wrote: 'my first was a Nikon F2 which synced at i think an 80th. No one though anything of it. We didn't think: "No we cant take flash pictures until they come out with the FM which syncs as 125th!"' Clearly we remember things differently. Back when the F2 was the press snappers standard tool, and we needed fill flash in bright sunlight, it was *common* (in the UK at least, I don't speak for anywhere else) to see guys using other cameras. I knew guys who carried Rollei TLRs in their cars, and more than one well known Fleet Street hack regularly used a Canon GIII rangefinder (sync at 1/500th) to solve just this problem. The Nikkormats (FT2/FT3) were a back stop too, because they would sync at 1/125th, but most folk kept something to hand with a faster sync speed. - -- David Morton dmorton@journalist.co.uk "The more opinions you have, the less you see." -- Wim Wenders.