Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/06
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B.D.
The only real way to take a double exposure with a Leica, is to use your
R3, which has a convenient switch to allow multiple exposures.
The feature list on the R3 is quite short, but that's one of them!
That said, I would probably opt for the Photoshop solution!
Regards,
Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: double exposure
> I stand chastised and corrected...
>
> Of course if you have a scanner and Photoshop, the last thing you need
> to worry about is how to take double exposures..:-)
>
> B. D.
>
> John Collier wrote:
> >
> > As Jim has pointed out, when you hold down the rewind lever and advance the
> > wind lever, terrible grinding and slipping noises ensue. This is the sound
> > of gears being forced to slip. It does cause damage and Leica says do not do
> > it. It OK with the M5 though.
> >
> > John Collier
> >
> > > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> > >
> > > Okay, call me stupid...What am I missing here? I'm obviously missing
> > > something pretty important...:-(...
> > >
> > > B. D.
> > >
> > > (Sure don't spend a lot of time taking double exposures....)
> > >
> > >> John Collier wrote:
> > >> Yes I talked to Leica and they assured me that the fact that you will
> > >> shortly have to change your winding mechanism is entirely coincidental.
> > >>
> > >> DO NOT DO DOUBLE EXPOSURES WITH ANY M CAMERA EXCEPT THE M5 PERIOD
> > >>
> > >>> From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
> > >>> And pay no attention to the grinding noise coming from inside your camera.
> > >>> It's just the gears ratcheting against each other...
> > >>> :o
> > >>>
> > >>> At 04:14 PM 10/4/2001 -0400, B. D. Colen wrote:
> > >>> Yup. Flip down the rewind lever, and cock the shutter with the advance
> > >>> lever...and to be absolutely sure, press down on the rewind knob while
> > >>> you are engaging in the aforementioned sequence....
> > >>>
> > >>>>> Feliciano di Giorgio wrote:
> > >>>>> Can you do a double exposure with a M6TTL? I checked the manual
> > >>>>> and couldn't find anything.
> > >>>>>
> >
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