Re: Kodachome 64 on the R8

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

I have always been told that the ISO or ASA was a starting point and that
you test your film/camera/lens system and use the 'Exposure Index ' that
gives the best results. I have had no problem doing that easily by setting
the ISO manually, but with the R7, if you set the ISO on other than the DX
code indicated, the red light keeps coming on.  I would like to continue as
I have done for thirty years, but was wondering at an earlier post when
someone stated that the automatic functions on the R7 didn't work if the ISO
was set on other than the DX code of the film.
- -----Original Message-----
From: Richard W. Hemingway <n5xrd@juno.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Tuesday, 25 November, 1997 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: Kodachome 64 on the R8

>Pete,
>
> >If you have shot Kodachrome 64 on the R8 lately, I would appreciate
>>your
>>insight as to the rating you gave the film for landscape work. Did you
>>rate
>>it at 64 or more towards 100?
>>
>>Is there a slight biasing of exposure in the matrix mode towards over
>>exposure on the R8? I kind of get this feeling from shooting my own
>>R8, but
>
>I have the same feeling.  I used Elite 200 and K200 in the R8 and K25 in
>the M6 on my last trip.  In several instances I feel that the R8 in
>Matrix is biased toward overexposure. AAfter I got back I shot E 100s in
>the R8 and K64 un the M6.  I found the R8 with matrix metering definitely
>lighter than the shots with the K64.
>
> I have just returned a K64 film from the R8 and the Elite 100 from the
>M6 (from what I saw I was not impressed with the E100s - but then most of
>it was overexposed and lost color saturation.). I am very familiar with
>K64, having shot it for years, and I should have the slides back
>tomorrow.  These were shot as companion shots - mostly to evaluate the
>color differences.  I will be interested to see if the R8 shots are
>overexposed.
>
>The funny thing is that in playing with the R8, M6 and hand meters,
>reflective and incident, the R8 in matrix many times would indicate less
>exposure than the others!!! (no film in the cameras and all set at asa
>64).  I don't feel that I can rely with the matrix metering - although on
>of the LUGers  that shoots print film says it is dead on which might
>indicate an overexposure bias. I hope that this is not true, for if I
>want AE I want it to work in matrix also - or I should just have kept the
>R7!  Actually the R8 has the best shutter I have seen in a camera and I
>like the feel of the beast.
>
>I'll post the results.
>
>
>Richard Hemingway
>Norman, OK
>