Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]guido ridoli wrote: > HORROR HORROR > :-) :-) > > the only way to install light meters in pre-M6 is > to read some Ansel Adams books about incident > metering..... > Try incident metering you will wonder about > results. > And if you really can't use an external meter like > Gossen or Sekonic > why don't you use the Leicameter on your cameras? I use a Weston Euromaster with Invercone which I had recalibrated a year or two ago. I've brought it out of semi-retirement this week as I'm out and about with my new Kiev 4 to test out the highly-recommended by Marc Jupiter-3 50mm f/1.5. Beautiful winter weather - show on ground, hard frost and clear blue skies. But I'm missing the M6's internal meter. I used to have a Leicameter perched atop my M2, but wasn't really happy with it. I've been an adapt of The Master for many years, having brought my photography up to a reasonable technical standard by reading "The Camera", "The Negative" and "The Print". Ansel Adams has been a hero of mine since he was alive. (I remember those bleak weeks in spring 1984 when in the space of a few weeks, Ansel Adams, Count Basie and Sir John Betjeman all died.) No, for my style of snapping (street and landscape) I need rapid access to basic exposure info from which I can take a mental decision as to compensation to give the results I want. But surely, mechanically, it is do-able?? > > > Guido Ridoli > LEICA M SUPERFAN > guirid@numerica.it