Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 6/8/99 12:53:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, roger@beamon.org writes: << The thing that so many seem unable to grasp about all the fancy schmancy auto exposure systems is that *every* exposure resolves itself to a discrete shutter and aperture setting. It matters little whether a multi-zone matrix and computer did it or you did it. Again: one f-stop and one shutter setting make the exposure. . >> I think it sort of does matter, because you have to know how a meter has biased it's "suggested exposure" in order to decide if and to what degree you need to override it. That's why you kind of have to pretty much put blind trust in the multi-zone computer-algorithm meters, or else switch to spot or center-weighted and make manual compensation for subjects that are far from 18%. One of the nice things about the Leica M meter is that it reads a specific area so you can be selective with it (and make it even more so by mounting a 90 or 135 lens to take a reading).