Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:31 PM 5/1/00 -0400, Andrew Moore wrote: > >Yes -- the non-digital one gives you a great analog scale which (I find) >gives the user a more intuitive idea of how far off the exposure is from a >given point. A digital reading doesn't do that. I find the same advantage >with an analog clock dial compared to a digital clock. It also does >exactly what I tell it to do, just like the M itself, with minimal >electronics to get in the way of a grea user interface. > >--Andrew Not true. The digital meter has BOTH analog and digital scale. I have a Gossen digital meter and I use the analog scale all of the time. Because of the reason you mentioned above. But the digital readout is very useful as well. The digital will read and display, on the analog scale, the contrast ratio (brightness ratio) of the scene as well. The digital meter will compute a filter factor through the actual filter you are about to use. the digital meter takes a 25 degree reflected reading whereas the non digital meter takes a 30 degree reading. The flash meter simultaneously gives you the ambient reading WITH the flash reading. Flash on the digital part and ambient on the analog part. Really nifty! there's lots more. Jim