Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Richard W. Hemingway" wrote: > > Mike, > > >I was reading the "Leica Compendium" by Jonathan Eastland and I came across > >this: "...the photographer can accurately measure very small areas of the > >object to be photographed using the preselector lever." He goes on to > >state, "By flicking the preselector lever to bring up the 90mm bright-line > > [snip] > > >How can this be? I thought the metered area was determined by the lens > >attached, mechanically. If the above is true, how would the camera know how > >much area to meter since the bright-line frames are shared by two focal > >lengths (the 90mm and the 28mm share the same bright-lines)? The MR meter atop my M3 measures the area outlined by the 90mm bright line. Perhaps that is what Eastland was refering to. jh