I believe it is a design feature in the ME super. I tried to drag the shutter with the flash and it always would default to 1/125. Used to p*** me off. Now I have a K1000 and can drag shutter to my hearts content.
Mat wrote; I have an ME Super body, and a Vivitar 283 flash unit. This is an older 283, with about 280 volts on the hotshoe terminal, as measured with my digital voltmeter. When the flash is plugged in, turned on, and charged, the camera defaults to a shutter speed of 1/125 in manual mode, no matter what speed the camera is set to. BUTCH "Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself" Hermann Hesse (Demian)
