Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/23

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Subject: [Leica] A night shot of Fremont, a neighborhood of Seattle
From: davison_m at msn.com (MARK DAVISON)
Date: Wed Nov 23 09:19:04 2005
 
Mark Rabiner asked:
>
>DO you have "Spot" with your R1D1?

No, the R-D1 has a "wide" spot like the M6.
I usually shoot the R-D1 on (aperture-preferred) auto-exposure. It appears 
to give more precise exposures this way.  At night I crank in -1/3 or -2/3 
exposure compensation to make the shadows go dark on purpose.

Curiously I haven't found the in-camera spot meters on my Nikons (D100 and 
F100) very effective for night shooting--they stop working when the light 
level gets too low.  The only camera I have whose spot meter reads out when 
it's dark is my old OM-4Ti, which has other problems (the shutter often 
fails to trip when it's cold and damp out.)

Mark Davison
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