Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/10/01

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Subject: [Leica] Live view and TTL "m"
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 00:46:33 +0400
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Yes! I found it to be much better than expected with unique advantages too.
Especially after my RF vertical alignment had its adventure. I got a really
good hit rate even wide open in low light for several hundreds frames
thereafter.


Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 2 October 2013 00:00, <afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote:

> I did wonder if the TTL oly attachment and the live view on the M would be
> a bit of a gimmick, but its been very useful, especially with lenses such
> as the Wide Tri-elmar. You can now very accurately frame your image and
> even focus closer than 0.7m. Here is an example of an 8 second exposure of
> a fountain. I was able to just keep the arches of the water spouts in the
> image without letting the flare get to bad from the lights just above the
> level of the upper image.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/pdnf5w7
>
> and here I was able to raise the camera above head high to avoid dross in
> the foreground. Not a great shot, but it was what I was after, weird angle
> and all :-)
>
> http://tinyurl.com/nhlv6e8
>
> Cheers
>
> Alastair
>
>
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