Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/28

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Subject: [Leica] Odd digital M flash behavior
From: ecoprof10 at gmail.com (Steven Beckham)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:03:16 -0600
References: <C75DC170.5B0EB%mark@rabinergroup.com> <399BCF0D-515C-42E5-B21D-86C210AD5C8F@ameritech.net>

This wouldn't have anything to do with the different shutter release modes 
on the camera--maybe a glich there--just thinking out loud.

S Beckham

On Dec 28, 2009, at 8:07 AM, Dante Stella wrote:

> Mark - 
> 
> Actually, I've been there and done that - the SB-800 is great but it (1) 
> has less power than a Metz 54 and (2) tends underexpose a little in A 
> mode.  But it's a valid solution and one that I may revisit due to the 
> smaller opportunity for weird preflash stuff.
> 
> I completely agree with the rest  - bouncing up and downlighting at high 
> power is the way to go because it looks like an overhead light and tends 
> to put the shadows in places where they are not offensive.  And for a 
> well-composed shot, it's always preferable (at least to me) to have more 
> things in focus.
> 
> Does anyone know if the M8/M9 synch circuit can handle a Vivitar 283, old 
> style?
> 
> Best New Years!
> Dante
> 
> On Dec 28, 2009, at 1:59 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>>> Did you not try the flash unit with the camera at sometime before hand? 
>>> Once
>>> again, if I were one to use a flash unit with any camera, I'd find out 
>>> how
>>> well it worked with the camera before hand under any circumstance. 
>>> Certainly
>>> considering I may not have used it before. I would make at least a half
>>> dozen snaps to make sure it was ready for use at the time of the 
>>> ceremony or
>>> event I was going to shoot!
>>> 
>>> In the end I do trust you managed some good images considering your
>>> explanation of the elderly gentleman in question?
>>> cheers,
>>> ted
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> If it was me I could easily have bounced my sb800 off the ceiling.
>> I do that all the time.
>> Making for the same modeling that ceiling lighting would.
>> And which I don't think is really so bad.  Down lighting.
>> But at f 8 not f 2. It would look like the real light in the room.
>> And with a blazingly fast in effect shutter speed instead of squeeze and
>> pray shudder speeds.
>> 
>> The speed in effect  becoming the flash duration.
>> 
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Odd digital M flash behavior)
Message from dstella1 at ameritech.net (Dante Stella) ([Leica] Odd digital M flash behavior)