Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Leica gestalt... On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:35 AM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Bob Adler