Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 7/6/99 7:58:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, markc@creativephoto.com writes: << When I went to buy my first M6 I inquired about a flash and the salesdroid who could have made a large commission on me (flash units yield much more then bodies or lenses) said "Real Leica photographers don't use flash" >> I don't know why that still persists. The last Leica made without flash sync was more than 50 years ago and both aftermarket (like the Geiss Kontakt for the IIIa) and factory conversions (IIIc to IIIf) of those un-synced models were popular. <<My point is the beauty of Leica is its un-obtrusive-ness and flash just ruins that. >> Different ballgame shooting chrome. Even a Noctilux won't save you from narrow latitude in daylight, and color casts in artificial or mixed lighting. Nat'l Geo photog David Alan Harvey, a staunch M6 user, uses (or at least the last time I read an interview, used to use) Vivitar 283's for fill work. DT