Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Charles E. Love wrote: >It's sad that we have to talk about hand-held spot meters with the M, a >quick-shooting camera if there ever was one. My Pentax digital is a nice >meter which I bought to use with my medium format cameras on the tripod, but >it's nearly as big as my M6. The M6's meter is very accurate, but it's hard >to know just how much it's measuring, and, despite Leica's ads, it's not at >all selective. I sound like a broken record, but there's no good reason >Leica couldn't have given us spot and averaging metering in the M6 years ago >(like the R cameras, which have a very good metering system). Then we could >shoot quickly with transparency film and get accurate exposures (as you can >with recent automatic R's with spot meters and exposure lock by metering a >midtone highlight, holding the shutter button partway down, and recomposing). I agree with you, Lucien