[Leica] Shooting football with R7 and exposure problems

["Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@istar.ca>]

Ted:

I thought I would bring some leica use content to the list.  The past two
Saturdays, I have taken pictures at the University football games, with
poor results on exposure.  I was shooting slide film and found it was under
exposed.  

Now to how I shot it Saturday.  I used the spot metering to measure off the
visiting teams uniforms and the field.  I then put it on auto full field
and compared the reading, they were the same.  The sky was cloudy and the
sun was  poking out every now and then.  This is why I shot on auto rather
than manual.  When I developed the slides, I noticed that any picture with
white jerseys in it was underexposed.  I had this same problem the previous
week but though it was because I was using spot auto.

I guess my question is, should I shoot on manual, what should I meter off?
What did you do when you had the R7.  The press guys at the games use
colour print film around 800 asa and I assume its whide lattitude make up
for small metering errors.  The slide film is just not forgiving.  I am
going to try it with +1/2 compensation the next time and see if I get
better detail.

I post two pictures from yesterdays game illustrating this problem.  The
first or left picture has all blue jerseys in it and is properly exposed,
while the right picture has white jerseys in it and is under exposed.  They
are full frame images, so they show everything the meter sees.

http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/football.htm

For those who care about the technical aspects, it was shot on  Kodak Elite
II 400.    The camera was an R7 with motor and an Apo-telyt 400 on a
manfrotto monopod.


Regards,

Robert Stevens