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Subject: [Leica] I didn't know this...
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 22:18:23 -0700
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Yes, I discovered this, and the spare battery arrived a couple of days ago.
Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

Question authority and the authorities will question you.




On Sep 15, 2014, at 4:05 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Herb, always carry a spare battery for the X100S as one minute you're 
> looking at three bars in the battery indicator, the next two, and, almost 
> immediately, the red light flashes, and the battery dies. This always 
> happens to me when a parade of curvaceous dancing girls gyrate past me 
> dressed in outrageous colours, all the while blowing kisses at me. Ahh, 
> maybe that was a dream, but bring a spare battery. Otherwise it's a great 
> camera.
> 
> Douglas
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herbert Kanner" <kanner at acm.org>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 8:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] I didn't know this...
> 
> 
> Well, the M6 ain?t a digital computer. You could think of the exposure 
> metering as equivalent to an analog computer. So, regard modern digital 
> cameras as bloody computers which will do all the crazy things that the 
> firmware programmers can think up.
> 
> My brand new X100S is an example of the designers of the firmware going 
> nuts. I really went through two full charges of its battery just trying to 
> figure out how to set it up the simple way I wanted. What was really 
> aggravating was that sometimes enabling one feature would disable another 
> as a side effect, and it could later take an hour to discover which 
> unnecessary feature disabled a desired one.
> 
> Otherwise, it?s a great camera.
> 
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 
> 
> 650-326-8204
> 
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 14, 2014, at 7:37 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> 
> wrote:
> 
>> My M6 does not act this way.....
>> 
>> Still, something to keep on file.
>> 
>> Frank Filippone
>> Red735i at verizon.net
>> 
>> On Sep 14, 2014, at 4:23 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Just back from Yosemite (hopefully an image or two later...). Went with my
>> wife (Jane) and her high school friend who now lives in Australia. Her
>> friend went to Yosemite with her family every summer growing up (she
>> remembers the real fire falls off Glacier Point from the Glacier Point
>> Lodge (which burned down in 1969)... So it really wasn't a photo trip, and
>> the light was awful with the smoke from the Little Yosemite Valley fires
>> and temperatures during the day of 90deg...
>> 
>> Anyway, to the point. We saw the smoke from the fire in Little Yosemite
>> Valley and went to Washburn Point so I could take some pictures at sundown
>> + to get the glow that appears after the sun goes down.
>> 
>> So my surprise was the 60sec exposure limit with the M. I became 
>> completely
>> baffled when I pumped the ISO up, put the setting on B and the exposure 
>> cut
>> off at less than 60 seconds despite holding down the shutter release on 
>> the
>> cable.
>> 
>> Going back to the room later and reading the manual, I found that the 60
>> seconds is for base ISO of 200. Pump the ISO to 400, and the time limit 
>> for
>> exposure goes to 30 seconds. Pump it again to 800 and the exposure time
>> limit drops again to 16 seconds; ISO 1600=8seconds and so forth.
>> 
>> So really it doesn't matter which ISO you use, you will not increase the
>> actual exposure at all.
>> Though I understand what's going on, I feel a bit cheated/mislead...
>> 
>> Just an FYI for M users who may not have discovered this.
>> Bob
>> 
>> -- 
>> Bob Adler
>> 
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In reply to: Message from rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert Adler) ([Leica] I didn't know this...)
Message from red735i at verizon.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] I didn't know this...)
Message from kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner) ([Leica] I didn't know this...)
Message from imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] I didn't know this...)