Re: [Leica] M6 Manual or help

["Gene" <sop@erols.com>]

I just got a M6 TTL without a manual as well, so I look forward to the
answers you receive. I'm not worried about TTL since my plans are to use
this only for available light. I can answer your question about an old
Vivitar. Actually, no "old" flash is going to provice TTL with any camera.
TTL requires the camera to mate with the flash as a single system where the
camera tells the flash when it has enough light to properly expose the film.
The flash then shuts off so as not to over expose the film. This differs
from "automatic" mode on the flash where a sensor on the flash tells it that
it should shut down. I believe that Metz makes a flash or flash/interface
module that is dedicated to the M6 TTL. Someone else will have to come up
with the specifics.

Gene

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "David Degner" <leicanews@myrealbox.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 11:04 AM
Subject: [Leica] M6 Manual or help


> K i've been using an M3 and for the past two years.  My new polygomous
> partner just arived, an M6 TTL .85.  Now I don't know how the thing really
> works.  I can work the meter just fine but I like to know the details of
> what exactly it is metering and how and all that jazz.  The TTL just
> confuses me right now.  I thought I knew how it worked. But im not
> sure.  If I set my Flash on TTL mode, and put the settings of the camera
so
> that inside it is on say F/2 and 1/2 second (way overexposed) shoudln't
the
> flash not even go off?  It could just be a problem with my flash (its an
> old Vivitar 35-D).  So after all this bable I will get to the question.
Is
> there an only version of the M6 TTL manual or a good website that explains
> how it all works?
>
> Thanks,
> David Degner
>
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