Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]take the damn battery out! i've had an m-6 (HM) for about 2 months now. yesterday was a very good shooting day for myself - starting in the late afternoon in the back yard and ending in a chicago blues joint...6 rolls, tri-x at 400 then 800 for a bit of amusement i started testing my eye against the light meter at 800 asa, shadows, highlights etc. after 25 yrs of no built-in meter (traded a nikon-f for a IIIf 19 yrs ago), ya' get pretty good at guessing...and i was either bang on or within a 1/2 stop every time. i found during the day the m-6 diodes marginally irritating, in a dark blues club - totally so and did take out the battery. tri-x at 800 has plenty enough latitude... what bothers me about using the built-in is that takes me out of the photographic moment. that the slight uncertainty made me look closely at the shot and more importantly, the light. sure on the m-3 i always had the mr-4 on top, but you use that more as a hand held - take some readings at the beginning of a session and adjust as you go from light to shadow, to the sun going behind a cloud to... so i'm wondering if i can put an earlier m shutter speed dial on the 6 or (heavens forbid, drill out the current one. sure i can still use the m-3, but its 40 years old and i don't trust it can take the pounding i dish out when i get going... or can anyone suggest a decent tiny hand held meter - the lights are making me see red dots!! or do you just get used to them? what did i just spend 2,000 on !?!? - --Steven Blutter-- sblutter@earthlink.net