Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/28

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Subject: [Leica] ISO dial on back of M6 TTL
From: scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Date: Sun Aug 28 12:16:19 2005
References: <000001c5abff$f271ed90$299dfea9@corp.nortel.com>

Sure. I have an M6TTL (recent vintage) with an even more recent
CLA, so I'm happy to trust the meter, accounting for subject brightness
and the like of course,

But trusting the meter is a different issue from having the intended film
ISO dialied in.

Scott

Vick Ko wrote:

>Hmmm.  Does sunny-16 work with the set ISO dial and the meter?
>
>On my 40 year old cameras, I don't trust the meter.  But the M6 came out
>within 10 years ago.  I'd expect to trust the meter then.
>
>Regards,
>
>Vick Ko
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+vick.ko=sympatico.ca@leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+vick.ko=sympatico.ca@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>Scott McLoughlin
>Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 2:20 PM
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: [Leica] ISO dial on back of M6 TTL
>
>
>Do any others find the ISO dial less than precise. I sometimes put my
>SF24 on the camera and find that a supposed ISO400 registers with the
>flash as ISO320!  And like discrepancies.
>
>A bit of dial tweaking fixes the problem, but without the SF24 or any
>other confirmation, I often don't trust the ISO film speed dial on the
>back of the camera.
>
>What is a poor Leica M shooter to do?
>
>Scott
>
>
>
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