Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M7 and high speed flash
From: "Richard F. Man" <richard@imagecraft.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:16:48 -0700
References: <7CB60903-E401-11D7-A255-000A95A0C556@cyberone.com.au> <7CB60903-E401-11D7-A255-000A95A0C556@cyberone.com.au>

At 08:24 PM 9/14/2003 -0500, Karen Nakamura wrote:
...
>I'm quite disappointed about this aspect as it's one reasons I bought the 
>M7.  The Leica SF-20 doesn't support HSS so instead you have to use one of 
>the huge boat-anchor Metz's. Which sort of defeats the purpose of a small 
>M7 camera.
>
>I can't wait until Leica gets a SF-25 or something with HSS, I'll be the 
>first on the block to get it, assuming it's less than $300.
>...

IMHO, the biggest problem is that you can't use 1/60 or 1/125! 1/250 and 
above sort of limit what you can do.

And yes, that Metz 54 is really nice, but huge.


// richard <http://www.imagecraft.com> 
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