Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/28

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Subject: [Leica] 13% or 23% ?
From: "Emanuel Lowi" <mano@proxyma.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 07:47:15 -0400

"I'm confused by something I read in the manual for my m6 ttl.  It says that
the metering field is the 12mm spot, or 13% of the negative size, but then
it also says that the metering field is 23% of what's in the viewfinder for
any particular lens.  I think that means 23% of what's contained within the
appropriate brightlines for the lens, which is confirmed by the illustration
of the different metering fields for the different lens/brightlines.  Does
that mean that the 12mm white spot somehow meters 23% of the field even
though it amounts to only 13% of the 24x36 mm film size?  What am I missing?

Mark"

You are missing this: see picture-point camera-set meter-release shutter. That
percentage stuff will drive you batty if you let it. This is a photo camera, not a
Texas instrument. :-)

Emanuel Lowi
montreal
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