Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/06

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Subject: [Leica] Flash Synchro // WAS: Oh Dang!
From: Andre Jean QUINTAL <megamax@abacom.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 08:16:05 -0400

	--> Would anyone care to tell us what sort of gizmo
	or camera modification it would take to make any Leica M
	"compatible" with a 1/250th flash synchro ?
	Is it feasible or something that would go as "deep"
	as requiring an altogether different shutter mechanism ???

	Andre Jean Quintal
>
Buzz Hausner wrote:
>This story brings up a point of personal camera management.  When I put my
>Leicas away, or between shots, I always reset the shutter speed dial to
>the flash sync setting.  The main reason I do this is that it makes it
>easy for me to know what my shutter speed is as I adjust speeds with the
>camera at eye level since it is a shorter throw between 1/50 and either
>1/30 or 1/60 than between any other speeds; I automatically count up or
>down from 1/50...just a matter of experience.  This protocol also has
>meant that I am always set at the sync speed on the few occasions when I
>do put on a flash.