Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:12 AM 4/19/96 -0400, William Hong <hong@cps.cmich.edu> wrote: >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? No, no, no, and a thousand times no! Changing the framelines doesn't "change the metering": it merely reflects a zone in the VF of what area the meter is reading. The metering stays the same -- it reads an area on the front shutter curtain. When you change the lens from one focal length to another, you change the effective are OF THE IMAGE which is metered -- but you don't affect the area of the curtain which is being measured. Maybe some other LUG can describe this better than can I. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!