[Leica] LUG Digest, Vol 46, Issue 240

[jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)]

2010-10-06-02:39:46 Mark Rabiner:
> With a TTL setting you'll blow about 3% of your shots. With the A setting 
> or
> sensor on flash its maybe 6%. That's 6 out of a hundred shots you'll not
> like the exposure so much. That's how I and the people I knew experienced 
> it
> for the most part.

Yeah, that and... as far as I can tell (am I wrong here?), the
supported TTL flash metering on the M8 and M9 (manual, GNC, whatsit)
does a little pre-pop just before the real exposure.  Just like those
damned "red-eye reduction" settings on point-and-shoots.  So instead
of getting the moment you wanted (you've obviously given up on getting
the light you're seeing, if you've busted out the flash),
anyway... instead of getting the moment you wanted, you get people
with that little-bit-after-a-flash-went-off-in-their-face "Wha...?"
expression.  Which maybe you could make a project out of, but I'm
usually not a fan.

So 99.9% of the time, I use the light that's already there, and if I
really really want to blast away with a flash, I use the old-school
'70s Vivitar-283-style non-TTL "Auto" with the flash's own sensor.

 -Jeff