Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas, I think that's good advice no matter which modern digital you carry. On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:05 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > Herb, always carry a spare battery for the X100S as one minute you're > looking at three bars in the battery indicator, the next two, and, almost > immediately, the red light flashes, and the battery dies. This always > happens to me when a parade of curvaceous dancing girls gyrate past me > dressed in outrageous colours, all the while blowing kisses at me. Ahh, > maybe that was a dream, but bring a spare battery. Otherwise it's a great > camera. > > Douglas > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herbert Kanner" <kanner at acm.org> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 8:20 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] I didn't know this... > > > > Well, the M6 ain?t a digital computer. You could think of the exposure > metering as equivalent to an analog computer. So, regard modern digital > cameras as bloody computers which will do all the crazy things that the > firmware programmers can think up. > > My brand new X100S is an example of the designers of the firmware going > nuts. I really went through two full charges of its battery just trying to > figure out how to set it up the simple way I wanted. What was really > aggravating was that sometimes enabling one feature would disable another > as a side effect, and it could later take an hour to discover which > unnecessary feature disabled a desired one. > > Otherwise, it?s a great camera. > > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > > > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > > > > On Sep 14, 2014, at 7:37 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> > wrote: > > My M6 does not act this way..... >> >> Still, something to keep on file. >> >> Frank Filippone >> Red735i at verizon.net >> >> On Sep 14, 2014, at 4:23 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA