Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark- what a great idea! I've got one of those Vivitar off camera cord/sensor things! I've got a Vivitar 285HV. I've got an M6- I'm ready to rock! Bob (I love these newfangled ideas that've been around forever!) Keene > >Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:27:23 -0800 >From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net> >Subject: Re: [Leica] M flash > >Robert Appleby and Susan Darlow wrote: >> SNIP >I've gone out several times this week with my 24 on my M6 and no finder. Last >week I was using the finder this week I left it off. >I've pretty much come to the conclusion that I don't need no stinkin finder. >It's OK sometimes. >And I've never used one of my millions of brackets on an M6 that I can recall >either. Might have. >I have used the Vivitar 283 with the sensor on the cord on the Hotshoe. And I >have a TTL camera too! The sensor works great and the pictures don't look like >flash pictures as I can aim the flash which I hold in my left hand anywhere in >the room and the light bounces around and eventually hits what's in front >of the >camera which is what the sensor is pointing. With a winder on the camera I can >blast away once I set my focus. And I can zone focus at the flash is automatic. >Mad your M6 is not automatic? Well with a flash it is automatic! >People who have decided that a strobe is a sacrilege on a Leica M6 are just >creating there own little ruts for themselves. >I prefer to keep as many possibilities open as possible. >I think most National Geographic photographers would never dream of saying >good-by to their strobes. I know some of them use M's. >Depends on the style of image you like. >Eugene Smith had twinkie lights coming out the yin yang. >To each his own! >Mark Rabiner >the marriage thing is big of you to say but it would be big a me! > >------------------------------