Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> I'll take a crack at this too, although I apologize if this has > already been covered in too much detail... I agree. I've been deleting like crazy over the past two days. But forgive me to make one comment regarding English (this comes from an originally non-native): Knoles (tgk@mwa.org) wrote... > Eastland's _M Compendium_, which I think is otherwise an excellent > book, contains a serious error in its discussion of M6 metering. He > says that changing the framelines will actually change the area > metered, which of course isn't true.... To me, Eastland's sentence means that the region in space which is being photographed and which is being metered - is affected by which lens one has mounted. Changing the lens, changes the frame lines and shows which region in the real world is being metered. > changes on an M6 is the size of the area _in the viewfinder_ which > is metered, and this depends on the focal length of the lens used ... <snip> ... > By changing to framelines that are 50% higher (50 for 35, 75 > for 50, etc.) you get a simply get a rough approximation of the part of the > image that is being metered. Oh. Maybe you got it also. OK. Enough of this. Let's go take some pictures and find out. -- Wolfgang =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Wolfgang Sachse Cornell University sachse@msc.cornell.edu http://www.msc.cornell.edu/~sachse =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=