Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Which M6?
From: "Dr. Joseph Yao" <joseph@yao.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:36:58 +0800

John,

The centre diode of the TTL is red, not green.  Now we know you have been
shooting with your Bessa-L lately! ;-)

Cheers,

Joseph

on 12/3/01 12:30 am, John Collier at jbcollier@home.com wrote:

> The Classic has  two diodes which you "balance" the brightness of to set the
> "correct" exposure. The TTL adds a centre green diode that lights when  the
> exposure is "correct". It is easy to tell exactly when the exposure is
> "correct" on the TTL because only one diode is lit. It is also easy to judge
> how far off you are with the TTL because about 3/4 of a stop off of
> "correct", the arrow diode and the centre diode are both lit.
> 
> John Collier