Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One thing about the M6 is that the white spot on the shutter will help reflect heat away from the shutter cloth thus giving you more time to contemplate your composition and exposure. I believe those who have had sunburned shutter problems left their camera lying on a table, lens pointing up, midday, sans lens cap. Other than this extreme case, I do not believe that a problem exists. When the sun is included in a photograph, it is usually at a low angle (not high noon) and does not ever pose a problem. With SLR cameras, it's only your eyeball that you have to worry about. If you lay your RF camera on a table, at high noon, on its back, use a lens cap. Jim Someone else wrote: >>And, for that matter, how _does_ one shoot directly into the sun with a >>Leica, given this risk of damaging the interior of the camera? At 09:31 AM 9/22/99 -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >The shutter is reasonably tough. Just work quickly, don't keep the camera >pointed at the sun for more than is necessary to focus and expose the >frame. > >Godfrey