Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica-Users List Digest V3 #270
From: Alexey Merz <alexey@webcom.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:25:37 +0100

Jim Laurel wrote:

>Take, for example, balanced fill flash.  In order to duplicate the
>functionality of the M6TTL, you'd have to have a flash that supported manual
>control of it's output, or happen to be lucky that one of the auto apertures
>supported by your flash happens to coincide with the aperture you need to
>properly expose for ambient light at 1/50th sec.

Agreed, totally. The superb dedicated fill that I get with my N---- FE2, 
along with its _very_ intuitive match-needle metering, permits very fast,
very precise balance of fill and ambient exposure. I assume that the 
later R's are at least as good, but having TTL on an M would provide one
more reason to leave the SLRs at home.

- -A.
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