Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Greetings, Those of us without external meters (not for lack of desire) are stuck with the one in the M6. I've found it to be quite good most of the time. Although, I admit that sometimes I meter the back of my hand and don't worry about it for a while. I don't remember who taught me that trick but it works pretty well as long as conditions don't change much. Frank On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:59:26 -0500 Clarus Music vz <clarus.music@verizon.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > In my SLR days I used the camera meter > constantly in aperture-priority > mode - each exposure was set individually. > These days with the M6 I don't > use the meter much. I meter here and there as I > go. Mostly I raise the > camera to my eye to meter, then carry on. It > almost seems more trouble to > have the meter in the camera - when I shoot I > don't look at the meter. I'd > rather point my Sekonic and set the camera from > there. I'm thinking what > difference dies it make if I had an M2,3, 4 or > 6 with a topside meter? Same > difference. > > How do other M6 people use their meter? > > Cheers, Jeffrey > > -- > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html