hydet Posted December 13, 2015 Share #1 Posted December 13, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) I am either overlooking something simple, or seem to have an issue with my new Leica SL. I cannot seem to achieve a slower shutter speed than 1/30. This is so in both Aperture or Manual, and whether I have an M lens or or the 24-90. I shoot on a tripod at night much of the time, so this isn't going to work. I made number of photos with multiple-second exposures in the past 3 weeks, but now it's stuck on 1/30 or faster. Please tell me I screwed up some setting....? Thank you.. Tim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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digitalfx Posted December 13, 2015 Share #2 Posted December 13, 2015 Put your camera in Manual...you will have a large M in the LCD. then turn the large round button on top of the grip to change shutter speed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hydet Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #3 Posted December 13, 2015 Thanks, Digitalfx, but that's where I stay 90% of the time. I can set my shutter speed with the dial, as you suggest, EXCEPT slower than 1/30. That's the problem. Full control but I can't achieve slower than 1/30 setting in either M or A. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediaFotografie Posted December 13, 2015 Share #4 Posted December 13, 2015 ...maybe auto-iso and 1/f setting - so it should be faster then 1/30s... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IkarusJohn Posted December 13, 2015 Share #5 Posted December 13, 2015 I just rotated the top dial in M mode and got the full range from B, 60 seconds through to 1/8,000 second. Can I suggest you try a camera reset? The new firmware is due out today anyway, so you have nothing to lose. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J S H Posted December 13, 2015 Share #6 Posted December 13, 2015 Don't reset your camera yet. You are likely in video mode. Push the live view button (to the left of the record button). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hydet Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share #7 Posted December 13, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Thanks, I may have been in video mode. I'll play with it more to make sure this is the problem. Quite embarrassing. I've had the camera about five weeks and made well over 10,000 exposures. I've used it as my working camera every day in that time, and thought I knew it pretty well. A large number of those exposures were at night (I'm in working on a February exhibition of pre-dawn Washington DC), mostly Manual at shutter speeds of 3-12 seconds I think...on a tripod. Only yesterday did this problem pop up. The problem was very troubling as I sold off all my Nikons and Zeiss glass. (It's a warning NOT to sell the Hasselblad H system, which I've been tempted to do.) Thank you, Gentlemen. tim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalfx Posted December 13, 2015 Share #8 Posted December 13, 2015 its a easy mistake. The solution is the set the video mode display setting to look different. I have mine set to display 4:3 and 16:9 frame lines + I have it set to LOG mode. When I am in video mode its quite obvious. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgktkr Posted December 13, 2015 Share #9 Posted December 13, 2015 The way I tell the difference is that if I see two parallel bars at the top right of the screen (audio levels) I know the camera is in video mode. To help stay out of video mode, I use Mode Lock (p. 205 of the printed manual). dgktkr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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