Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/12

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Subject: [Leica] Re: [LRFlex] Re: eTTL flash
From: mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura)
Date: Tue Apr 12 23:04:22 2005
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At 3:26 PM -0700 05.4.12, Richard wrote:
>I don't know if the M7 can use just anybody's high speed flash. It's 
>not really fast flash per se, but rather more like an extended 
>strobes. Anyway, you will need to manually set the shutter etc. Not 
>particularly easy to use, I'd imagine.

It can't. You need to synchronize the speed of the shutters against 
the multiple bursts from the flash and the M7 doesn't have that fine 
degree of control. So that feature is disabled when you link it with 
a flash that supports it.

You can do HSS with the R8 and R9 though.

Karen

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Karen Nakamura
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Replies: Reply from mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura) ([Leica] Re: [LRFlex] Re: eTTL flash)
In reply to: Message from s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov) ([Leica] eTTL flash)
Message from s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov) ([Leica] Re: [LRFlex] Re: eTTL flash)
Message from richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard) ([Leica] Re: [LRFlex] Re: eTTL flash)