Serial Exposures - Leica M Instruction Manual

Notes:
• If review mode (see "Review mode", p. 204) or menu control (see
p. 154) was previously active, tapping the shutter release button
immediately switches to picture mode.
• To avoid blurring, the shutter release should be pressed gently –
not jerkily, until the shutter is released with a soft click.
• The shutter release button can be pressed to take one or more
individual pictures while a video recording is in progress. Details of
video recordings and the video shutter release (17) can be found
on p.196.

Serial exposures

On the Leica M, you can not only take single pictures - by setting the
main switch (15) to ( [single]) - but also series of pictures, by setting
S
the main switch to ( C [continuous]), e.g. to capture sequences of
movement in several stages.
Apart from operation of the shutter release (16), series of pictures
are taken in the same way as single pictures: A series of pictures is
taken for as long as you hold down the shutter release (provided that
the memory card has suffi cient capacity). If you only press it briefl y,
the camera continues to take single pictures.
A maximum of around 3 frames per second can be produced. At least
the fi rst 8 of these are taken in rapid succession, after which the
image frequency is reduced slightly.
Notes:
• The specifi ed picture frequency and the maximum possible number
of pictures in a series relate to a standard setting –
format. The frequency and number may be lower when
JPEG fine
using diff erent settings or depending on the memory card used.
• Regardless of how many pictures are taken in a series, in both
review modes (see p. 204) the last picture in the series or the last
picture in the series stored on the card - if not all pictures in the
series have been transferred from the camera's buff er memory to
the card at this point - is displayed fi rst.
152
and
ISO 200