Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pascal wrote: > results in better results in the field or not. Does the F5 system lead to > "better" results (or a higher number of usable shots) than the R8, as one > could imagine, or is this just hype? > Don't know about the meter, but the guy I work with just got an F5 friday and it is HUGE, and the viewfinder is DARK. It has nice controls, from what little I could tell in looking at it for the 2 minutes I had before running out on a shoot, but I could not get over how big it is. I think it is 1/4 again as big as my old EOS 1 was and that thing was rather large. IMHO all this meter stuff is just BS. You, as the photographer, have to know what you are wanting exposed correctly and how to expose for that light, no meter will do it perfect all of the time, and TTL (be it a center spot TTL or Matrix TTL) is easily fooled by high reflectance subjects, backlighting, hard sidelighting, low reflectance objects. If you know how to use an incident meter properly you will end up with better, more consistent exposures in 90% of the shooting situations you will encounter. Harrison McClary http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto