Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ze German engineerz know vat is best for you, yes. You should not expose so much, no. Op Ma, 15 september, 2014 09:10, schreef Herbert Kanner: > I wonder if the M9 does the same thing. I?ll have to check it. > > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > > > > On Sep 14, 2014, at 7:23 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just back from Yosemite (hopefully an image or two later...). Went with >> my >> wife (Jane) and her high school friend who now lives in Australia. Her >> friend went to Yosemite with her family every summer growing up (she >> remembers the real fire falls off Glacier Point from the Glacier Point >> Lodge (which burned down in 1969)... So it really wasn't a photo trip, >> and >> the light was awful with the smoke from the Little Yosemite Valley fires >> and temperatures during the day of 90deg... >> >> Anyway, to the point. We saw the smoke from the fire in Little Yosemite >> Valley and went to Washburn Point so I could take some pictures at >> sundown >> + to get the glow that appears after the sun goes down. >> >> So my surprise was the 60sec exposure limit with the M. I became >> completely >> baffled when I pumped the ISO up, put the setting on B and the exposure >> cut >> off at less than 60 seconds despite holding down the shutter release on >> the >> cable. >> >> Going back to the room later and reading the manual, I found that the 60 >> seconds is for base ISO of 200. Pump the ISO to 400, and the time limit >> for >> exposure goes to 30 seconds. Pump it again to 800 and the exposure time >> limit drops again to 16 seconds; ISO 1600=8seconds and so forth. >> >> So really it doesn't matter which ISO you use, you will not increase the >> actual exposure at all. >> Though I understand what's going on, I feel a bit cheated/mislead... >> >> Just an FYI for M users who may not have discovered this. >> Bob >> >> -- >> Bob Adler >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman photo at frozenlight.eu