Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Specifically which images do you feel are underexposed? Keeping in mind that the M6 has a spot meter whose circular spot size is about 1/3 the height of the frame, in the middle...... of the lens in use... not the whole RF, just the VF area of the 35mm frame lines..... Spot meters are not so easy to use without thought..... you have to purposefully point the metering area at the "middle gray" area... then recompose to shoot. The center of the frame is not always middle gray nor is middle gray area always in the center of the frame.... If you are consistently 1/2 stop off on ALL your images, then adjust the ASA to compensate. Either your lab is processing off center or your meter is measuring off center. Either is OK, and is (probably) not worth fixing... LF and especially B+W photographers do it all the time.... However, if some of your shots are spot on, and others are off....try to figure what you did to meter the image.... then, very clinically, diagnose the image density to see if you measured wrong....did you point at the wrong area? Was the "middle grey" of the center part of your image always OK, but the other areas were off? Keep in mind that is the average of the light areas in the middle of the image that count.....average being the operative word..... Look at your failures as images as well... just because the image is not what you want does not mean that you can not learn from it..... Your images, to me, and assuming you did not PS them at all, seem like the problem is as I first described.... you are pointing the camera at the image you want, metering, and shooting.. no re-composition.... See the image of the Girl on the couch.....Girl outdoors at Chipotle.......Diana cameras stacked up...... The outside picture of the Guy against the beat up garage door is just fine.. but the lighting was very even across the scene.... Ditto the staircase with the writing on the steps..... Why did the window shot work? Because the brightness of the window light mixed with the darkness of the staircase to give you the right AVERAGE light..... Ditto the door in the garage.... Manual Metering is not easy. It is why AE cameras have lots of metering modes..... unfortunately, you have to learn each one on your own to manually meter.... Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Yama Nawabi Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 11:09 AM To: 'Leica Users Group' Subject: [Leica] Another first..Slide film http://flickr.com/photos/helloyama/ shot with velvia, m6ttl, and Summicron 35 v3 i still need to work on metering with the m6, a lot of shots are underexposed, so I guess I need to overexpose a half stop to a stop. Does anyone have any tips? Thanks! -Yama Nawabi _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information