Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/16

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Subject: [Leica] Re: flash
From: Ken Wilcox <klw.51@home.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 19:41:33 -0500

Alice,

The adapter is the first thing to suspect and the easiest thing (and 
cheapest) to check. Sick a new one on and see what happens.

Ken Wilcox


At 06:51 PM 12/16/2001, AKroehle@aol.com wrote:
>Hi folks.  Although I have been a lurker for a while now, I have learned a
>lot from the regulars on the list.  I am strictly an amateur, although I
>haven't mustered any courage to submit any of my photos to the PAW.  That
>said, I learned to use a rangefinder on a Canon GIII QL17 and learned to use
>a Leica on my grandfather's IIIF BD.  I am still learning.
>That said, and realizing most Leica folks would rather use available light, I
>occasionally use flash.  I have had an M2 for about 2 years.  When I got the
>camera, I couldn't get a flash to work, and replaced the adaptor plug
>(correct term?).  Anyway, I was out yesterday shooting some pictures, and
>again I couldn't get the flash to work.  I used the flash on another camera,
>and it worked like a champ., and conversely, other flashes still won't fire
>on the M2.  Is the adaptor plug that vulnerable, or is there something else I
>should be looking at?
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Alice Kroehle
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