Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Need some colelctive wisdom firneds.. Using the SF 20 on my Leica .85, TTL, I note that the flash will sometimes not fire when set on "M" to be used as fill in at 1/4 power. obviously, when as fill in, the exposure and F stop are set according to the lighting at hand, not at the sync speed of 1/50th. Usually the problem occurs when the subject is well lit,i.e., on a beach where one might want to use just a bit of flash on the face while keeping the over all mood. I had Rich at Photovilla try the M setting on the SF in a similar situation...the flash did not go off, set to M, 1/4 strength, when the camera and flash were directed at a light source ( in this case, a bulb ), but did fire as fill in when the camera was directed at a shady area. Since M is meant to be used as fill in as the photographer desires ( regardless of the ambient light or exposure chosen on the M6), one wonder what is going on. The ambient light should have nothing to do with it...or the fill in feature is abrogated and not useable. Advice gladly taken. What am I over looking? Elliot Elliot - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html