[Leica] A Red Dot story

[Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com>]

I take the point here but as there are loads of cameras which are ideal for
fill flash (which I never use) and loads of cameras with high shutter speeds
ideal for fast films (which I never use) why is it that people who need
these feature select a camera which doesn't have them, then want to change
it?
Excuse my rant, but because it is almost the only camera left which I
actually LIKE I feel the need to defend it.
cheers Frank


> 
> <<>> A 50th of a second sync is fine for them it's not a camera in which
>>> people who shoot flash at high noon from a distance flock to.
>> 
>> But the 1/50 sync speed might be the very reason those folks don't flock
>> to it.  I don't know about anyone else but if the speed were higher
>> (1/250, or even just 1/125), the M6 would be *MUCH* more useful to me and
>> it would probably be my camera of choice (if I still had it) for most
>> situations (wedding candids, travel, news, snaps) in bright sunlight.  I'm
>> not saying I'd actually make better photos with it but I'd be alot more
>> willing to try :)
>> 
>> --Andrew
>> NO ARCHIVE
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> Gee, I have been using the 1/60 sync speed on my Nikon F3 for years with no
> trouble for all my magazine work so I do not understand how a higher sync
> speed on the M6 would be "*MUCH* more useful". I am leaving in a few minutes
> to go over to National Geographic Television with my F3/SB28 and a 1/60 sync
> speed to do a photo spread. Just my .03 cents worth.
> 
> sl>>
> 
> How do you fill flash someone wearing a ball cap under a high sun?  What I do
> is set my FM2 at 1/250th sec, meter for overall, and set my flash for 1.5
> stops less.
> That situation accounts for an astonishingly large percentage of my
> photography.  Unless I am using a really slow film (almost never), 1/50th
> doesn't work well, not to mention subject and camera motion problems.
> 
> Good luck on your photo shoot.
> 
> Allen Zak