Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Le 15 sept. 14 ? 17:21, Robert Adler a ?crit : > I'm learning... > :-) German? ;-) Ph > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Bob Adler > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint Exup?ry in Le Petit Prince. NO ARCHIVE