[Leica] Minority?

[Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>]

>>>I may be in the minority, and I rarely post here, but it seems to me
that
TTL flash metering in a RF Leica is really dumb<<<


Richard,
Add me to the minority. I wouldn't use the word "dumb" but I can only
think of one great Leica photographer who used flash, Lee Friedlander,
and he used it only sometimes (he is quoted somewhere saying he started
using flash because he wanted to play with his cameras indoors after
dark, and the available light sucked. Well, I guess he didn't use the
word "sucked." But anyway, he went on to do some significant work with
flash, including some of his nudes and the "Factory Valley" work).
Almost all the great Leica photography has been done using available
light.

But then, I've been getting jumped all over for suggesting that an M6
shouldn't be used on a tripod, too, so maybe I'm just out of step. Maybe
an M6 is best used on a heavy tripod, with an on-camera flash, and I'm
just not getting with the program.

But...in the words of the late, great Don Martin, of MAD magazine,
"Bleeeeeeech!"

Only half lightheartedly,

- --Mike