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Subject: [Leica] Can someone share the secrets of good flash photography?
From: creativevisions at verizon.net (Michael J Herring)
Date: Sat Jul 16 14:20:02 2005
References: <4cfa589b0507151623709e6148@mail.gmail.com> <D682C3C1-2984-4C6F-B5AA-AEFCC910B5A8@earthlink.net>

Strange. This works very well on Canon and Nikon film and digital SLRs using 
ETTL.

Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "feli" <feli2@earthlink.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Can someone share the secrets of good flash 
photography?


> Bounce it whenever you can and use as little of it as possible. At a 
> minimum
> I set the flash to cut off at 1.5 stops below the aperture I am  shooting 
> at. Sometimes
> 2 stops. Works like a charm with a TTL or M7.
>
>
> feli
>
> On Jul 15, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:
>
>> I don't take a lot of flash pictures and the ones I do usually
>> discourage me from trying more.
>>
>> The other day I was at a luncheon and shot the M6ttl, the Leica SF70
>> flash, and TCN400.
>>
>> I'm REALLY unhappy with the images. I think they are as well exposed
>> as they were going to be shooting in a dark room, but geesh, I feel
>> totally clueless. The only thing I could have done worse was with a
>> flash-bulb maybe.
>>
>> And I'm useless using fill flash.
>>
>> If there are any good references I'd sure appreicate them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Adam - NOT the flash
>>
>
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