Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Bad Experience in M6TTL with flash
From: "Dr. Joseph Yao" <yaojkfdr@netvigator.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:09:04 +0800

Jerry,

The M6 TTL requires power to trigger the flash, whether you are in TTL or A
mode, or even manual mode.

Non-TTL M6 did not require power to do so, and it would even trigger the
flash if the film was not advanced.

Hope this helps....

Regards,
Joseph

on 26/9/00 16:38, Jerry S. Justianto at jsjm6@cbn.net.id wrote:

> During a trip to a museum I just realized, that when M6 battery become weak
> (not dead) it could not trigger flash SF-20 at all.  I forced changing the
> mode from TTL to A in SF-20 and still the flash is not fired at all.  So I
> could not make any shoot with the camera :(
> 
> Is this happened with other Leica model, when the battery is weak it can't
> send signal to any flash even in A mode?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jerry S. Justianto
> 

Replies: Reply from Javier Perez <summarex@yahoo.com> (Re: [Leica] Bad Experience in M6TTL with flash)
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