Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/30

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Subject: [Leica] Comparing B&W M9/MM
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:26:56 +1000
References: <52E71094.5080901@cox.net> <80F9701439F20347874CE5E4E03C22E9E683D31D@WhizzMAIL01.whizz.org> <3941DB73-ED40-4DBC-AB4F-A065EA3E682E@gmail.com> <80F9701439F20347874CE5E4E03C22E9E684A46B@WhizzMAIL01.whizz.org> <106455A3-8D0D-47AD-AA36-1DCA2E75079A@archiphoto.com> <52EADF49.3010202@cox.net> <FB52A573-02EF-4035-B52D-A628D53FA155@gmail.com> <CAF8hL-EsBknuY3t_U4MuXBS_aQazUnu=SZAcmwcyqTVWMCLatQ@mail.gmail.com>
 
Or more precisely, the Leica large spot meter is a dumb, simple system that
does exactly what a dumb system does, accurately and predictably. What you
told it, not what you meant!  No training wheels ;-) ;-)
When you get the wrong result (as I do regularly) the error is not inside
the camera ;-) ;-) ;-)


Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 31 January 2014 10:06, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:

> The Leica large spot metering can be full badly shooting in the street with
> heavy light and shadow. Digital and LR/PSD can really help here.
>
> B&W film: expose for the shadow, develop for the highlight
> Color slide: expose for the highlight, pray for the shadow
>
>
>
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