Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>as there are loads of cameras which are ideal for >fill flash (which I never use) and loads of cameras with high shutter speeds >ideal for fast films (which I never use) why is it that people who need >these feature select a camera which doesn't have them, then want to change >it? > Frank That's a very good question. Guy >> <<>> A 50th of a second sync is fine for them it's not a camera in which >>>> people who shoot flash at high noon from a distance flock to. >>> >>> But the 1/50 sync speed might be the very reason those folks don't flock >>> to it. I don't know about anyone else but if the speed were higher >>> (1/250, or even just 1/125), the M6 would be *MUCH* more useful to me and >>> it would probably be my camera of choice (if I still had it) for most >>> situations (wedding candids, travel, news, snaps) in bright sunlight. I'm >>> not saying I'd actually make better photos with it but I'd be alot more >>> willing to try :) >>> --Andrew >> >> How do you fill flash someone wearing a ball cap under a high sun? What >>I do >> is set my FM2 at 1/250th sec, meter for overall, and set my flash for 1.5 >> stops less. >> That situation accounts for an astonishingly large percentage of my >> photography. Unless I am using a really slow film (almost never), 1/50th >> doesn't work well, not to mention subject and camera motion problems. >> Allen Zak