Leica Lens and Flash

[james_wilcox]

I have an M6 and a bag full of Leica glass.

 

I've decided I want to start using a flash for some street

photography, but the M6's sync speed makes this impractical.

 

Are there any solutions out there that would allow me to use all this

Leica glass on, say, an alternate SLR body with a higher flash sync

speed, through an adapter?

 

Thanks as ever.

[cabophoto]

James,

 

due to the film-to-flange distance necessary for accomodating the mirror of an SLR it?s impossible to use Leica M lenses with this type of camera.

 

Carsten

[sammer]

How about the new VC offerings... I believe the R2A and R3A sync at 125th and take M-mount lenses without need for an adapter.

[terry_m1]

I use my M6 TTL with flash often and both work wonderfully! I set either my SF20 Leica flash or my Metz flashes to TTL, choose a specific aperture on my lenses, and fire away. I don't find the slow sync speed to be a hindrance at all. The sample below was shot with my M6 TTL, 50mm Summicron, SF20 flash, and Delta 100 last weekend.<div></div>

[huw_finney]

My R2 is 125th sync, or use one of those new fangled high speed flashes, not shure they can be used 'off system' though. Flash bulbs?

[billsr]

My MP works wonderfully with a Metz flash that has a thyristor and sets its own exposure times. My camera has no TTL capability. It also has a slow synch setting, but the flash provides all the speed you need for good sharp exposures. It's no handicap to me at all!

Best regards, Bill

[james_wilcox]

Thanks for the answers everyone. I considered the new Bessa, but that syncs at only 125 I

believe, and that's not qiuck enough for street shots. I think I'll have to get an FM3.

 

Thanks again.

 

james

[grant_.]

why not go for a mamiya 6, leaf shutter syncs at 500th, bigger neg...?

[andrew_hall1]

Or you can get a ubiquitous Canonet with the same 1/500 sync speed and save $$$$.

[andrew_hall1]

>it?s impossible to use Leica M lenses with this type of camera.

 

...except for close-ups:

 

http://cameraquest.com/leicamcloseup.htm

[ben z]

"syncs at only 125 I believe, and that's not qiuck enough for street shots."

 

And to think in 94 years HCB never figured that out. Boy, would his face be red.

[max_fun]

How about getting an M7 and use high speed sync? Sure cuts down the effective distance for street photography though... just thought to throw out another idea.

[eliot_rosen1]

The M7 will allow 1/500 and 1/1000 sec sync speeds with the proper Metz flash. It works like Olympus' full-synchro flash by providing multiple short pulses of light. As Max says, the penalty you pay is the distance the flash reaches is much shorter. But it should work well for fill flash.