Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chandos, fill with this flash indoors with moderate speed film isn't to bad. If I remember correctly this is an aperture priority flash where you set on of two or three available apertures and an external sensor on the flash reads the light bouncing back from the subject in center-weighted way and quenches the flash when sufficient light is read. So, take a light reading with shutter speed no higher than 1/50. Adjust the shutter aperture combination until one of the available aperture options works within the shutter speed parameters. Now, do you want 1/1 flash or something more subtle? Shutter is your control over ambient light and aperture is your control over the flash. If you want flash to appear less apparent your shutter/aperture combination should give you an aperture smaller than the flash tells you is correct. If you want the flash to predominate then set a shutter speed higher than ambient light meter readings would indicate. Now aren't you glad that your M lets you set intermediate shutter settings. If you try this outdoors you will quickly find the 1/50 shutter speed a limitation. Read the LUG archives for a really long thread. This is not nearly as hard as it sounds, try it a few times and it becomes second nature. If it doesn't, what was that price for a TTL in Bangkok? Don Dory dorysrus@mindspring.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html