Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/05

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Subject: [Leica] Another M9 question
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:56:16 -0700
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A few years ago, a friend asked me to do a bunch of pictures of a 
party celebrating an adoption. This was in an apartment with dead 
white walls and ceiling, so I was happy to use bounce flash with an 
M6 and color neg film.

Herb


>The whole point of Leica rangefinders is to use available light.  Why would
>you ever want to use a flash with a rangefinder?  Just say NO to flash.
>
>Tina
>
>On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Tom Schofield <tomschofield at 
>comcast.net>wrote:
>
>  > I found, much to my chagrin, that there is no ttl flash with an m9 and 
> sf20
>  > or Metz 54mz + sca3502.  Metz shows no new adapter for m9/s2 giving ttl
>  > control.  An ebay seller is advertising a Metz 54mz + sca3702 (Pentax)
>  > adapter for m9 & s2.  I asked him, and he says it works ttl with those
>  > cameras.
>  >
>  > Anyone hear of this before?  I'd much rather spend $100 on an adapter 
> than
>  > $800 on an sf 58! (and, yes, I know that if I can spend $7 k on the 
> camera,
>  > I should be able to spend another $800 for the flash, plus $200/ lens x 
> 6
>  > for coding, etc.)
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Tom Schofield
>  >
>  >
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>  >
>  >
>
>
>--
>Tina Manley, ASMP
>www.tinamanley.com
>
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-- 
Herbert Kanner
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