Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Henning, > He said that he had used the F5's spot metering. No color metering. Sorry, you are right, I did not see that point. About you b point, I would agree if we were shooting uniform surfaces. But films are not that cheap and we can't afford to photograph white or black surfaces without anything else :-). It's the "else" that give the F5 a clue about what it is measuring. > e) The one other variable is that Nikon's matrix metering, and I believe > others, don't normally allow more than 16 or 17. I don't believe that the > spot metering has this restriction. It does not, I just tested it. - -- Jean-Claude Berger (jcberger@jcberger.com) Systems and RDBMS consultant (MCSE) Lyon, France http://www.jcberger.com