Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/19
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Well, I cranked out my original post late last night, and looking at it
now, I see I omitted the basic point: Flicking the frame selector to the
finder frame for a lens 50% longer than the one you're shooting with serves
only to show you the approximate area that is covered by the metering
system. For example, if you're shooting with a 50mm lens, the frame lines
for the 75mm lens will show you the "spot" covered by the metering system.
It doesn't change the metering itself. Hope that clears things up a bit.
Chuck Albertson
Seattle, Wash.
At 09:12 AM 4/19/96 -0400, William Hong wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, 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.
>>
>> ----------------------
>> Charles E. Albertson
>> Seattle, Wash.
>> chucko@mail.eskimo.com
>>
>
>Jonathan Eastland's Leica M Compendium also mentioned this technique, but
>it doesn't seem to work on my M6. Flicking the frameline selector
>doesn't see to change the metering at all. I don't understand how this
>would work. Since the framelines come up in pairs, how would it know to
>meter with the 35mm line, not the 135mm line, and the 28mm line, not
>the 90 mm line?
>
> William Hong
> hong@cps.cmich.edu
>
>