Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted Grant wrote: > All this flash stuff on M camera's is quite amazing, when you're talking > about the finest available light camera/lenses around. Hell if you can see > it..you can shoot it! I guess if you don't care about balancing out harsh shadow on faces in direct sunlight, or are always using low contrast / wide latitude print film, or like blown out highlights, this works. I use chrome a lot and fill flash for out door portraits becomes a necessity if I want to keep the eyes and background balanced. And sometimes, there just isn't enough light for the shot I want, and a flash makes a shot possible. > Besides why knock yourself out banging an M camera around with a flash when > it's much easier to pick-up a point and shootie camera and do it all as a no > brainer flash exercise! ;-) Most P&S cameras don't give much control, over the exposure or the flash balance. Even my beloved Minilux has little control over the flash output (a nice flash exposure compensation switch would be a great improvement). That said, a good P&S will do in many cases, but an M6 (TTL or otherwise) is not hard to use a flash on, it is really really easy (even I can do it). Focusing at f1, now that's hard. > Remember guys... keep it simple, save the Leica for real picture taking. ;-) Flash pictures are not real? Gee, I guess we better enlighten all of those magazine photogs about how to take pictures :) Come on, flash photography is real - let's not get too snobish about our 'available light' bias. - - marc - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html