[Leica] Best flash for M8?

[lucien_vd at mac.com (lucien_vd@mac.com)]

Frank Filippone wrote :

> Lucien... the M8 sensor works with all the pixels in the array  
> integrating the light at the same time.  It can not work with a slit
> shutter and a single flash of light.  That is clear from the Kodak  
> literature and application sheets.

> Let me carefully define a slit shutter.... when the leaves in the  
> shutter are open in a way such that the trailing edge of the
> leading leaf and the leading edge of the final leaf are closer  
> together than the entire image area.

Yes, that's the description of synchro flash, in this case (R9 and  
M8) max 1/250.

It was the same with film.

But Frank, in your opinion, how does the M8 sensor work (without  
flash) for speed between 1/250 and 1/8000 ?

In my opinion, it cannot work without a shutter, because, like Kodak  
wrote it :

'The number of electrons collected is linearly dependent on light  
level and exposure time ...'

And on the M8, AFAIK, only the shutter (and the aperture) can  
regulate that.

Lucien