Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]the very few times i have used a flash on the m6, i had noticed the strangeness in syncing similar to what's described below. i think now i've unconsciously created a moral (aesthetic) equivalence between flash photography and (cheap) digital. i.e., if it's a flash situation, grab the wife's P/S kodak. -rei On Feb19 13:02, John Collier wrote: > Yup, normal. > > John Collier > > On 19-Feb-06, at 11:40 AM, chatterjees@charter.net wrote: > > >My M2 and M3 do the same thing. The "classic" M6 seems to behave > >the same way. > > > >---- Lew <lew1716@optonline.net> wrote: > >>I'm running a series of tests using my pre-ttl M6 & off camera > >>electoronic > >>flash. The first rolls developed properly indicating that the x- > >>sync & > >>shutter speed combo work properly. Now, I notice that after I've > >>fired a > >>frame & before advancing the film, if I depress the shutter > >>release, the > >>flash also fires. Is this normal? I thought that the x-sync > >>setting made > >>contact just as the following curtain began to close. > -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey