Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Charles E. Albertson wrote: > As a rule of thumb (and I got this from the late Andrew Matheson's > book, "Leica M6: Rangefinder Practice M6 to M1), use the finder frame for > the lens that is 50% longer than the one you are metering through. For > example, click the frame selector to the 75mm frame if you're metering with > a 50mm, use the 50mm frame is you're shooting with a 35mm, use the 135mm > frame for the 90mm lens, etc. It seems to work OK for me. Since the M6 meter is pointed on a white disk of 12mm of diameter (at center of the 24x36mm curtain), I think that the rule of thumb should be to use the frame of twice the focal length you are metering through (75mm for a 35mm, 90mm for a 50mm etc..) --- Francois Jouve (Francois.Jouve@polytechnique.fr) Centre de Math. Appliquees, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau (France) http://blanche.polytechnique.fr/users/www.jouve/jouve.html