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

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Subject: [Leica] Live view and TTL "m"
From: red735i at verizon.net (Frank Filippone)
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:01:50 -1000
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Geoff.  Did you use the LCD or the Oly VF?  Your email was not clear to me. 

Maybe Bob Adler will let me try out his setup?  Pretty please?

Now if they would just put the EVF inside the camera.     

Frank Filippone

On Oct 1, 2013, at 10:46 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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