Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/17

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Subject: [Leica] RE: Odd behaviour on stopdown metering on an SL2
From: vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko)
Date: Fri Dec 17 17:38:41 2004

Okay, I figured out what I was doing wrong, after finding the manual.

I was trying the below with a 3-cam lens, and you aren't supposed to
play with the dof button while metering.

I then tried metering with a Visoflex lens on the SL2, and everything
behaves as expected.

regards
Vick

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Vick Ko [mailto:vick.ko@sympatico.ca] 
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 6:57 PM
> To:   'Leica-Users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
> Subject:      Odd behaviour on stopdown metering on an SL2
> 
> I've detected odd behaviour on stopdown metering on an SL2.
> 
> I focus fully open and align the meter needle to the follower.
> 
> Then I press the iris stopdown.  As expected, the light in the
> viewfinder dims, but the meter needle moves out of the follower.
> 
> So my question is, why does the meter needle move?  
> 
> Yes, the image gets dimmer, but the lens cams should have gotten the
> meter needle to be at the correct place, relative to the follower.  
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> regards
> Vick