Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Or use an incident meter for best results..... Francesco At 08:07 AM 7/14/98 -0700, you wrote: >I do not believe that Leica alters the meter in favor of either over or >under exposure. This would be a disaster with Velvia. Velvia is really an >EI 40 film. Meters are usually set to 50 for Velvia already giving a >"skinny" exposure. Velvia does not do well with underexposure. I use tons >of velvia in my Leicas and if they were underexposing, I would be in trouble. > >Remember, TTL meters are "reflected" meters and it's what you point them at >that creates the apparent over or under exposure. Take a small (4"x5") 18% >gray card and after metering the scene, hold up the gray card directly in >front of the lens (filling the viewfinder frame), in the same plane as the >film, and re-meter. Chances are that the scene has stuff that is too light >and giving you a false reading. It's easy to check your meter with a gray >card. If it is off, either make appropriate adjustments in your methods, or >get it fixed. > >Jim > >At 10:06 AM 7/14/98 +0200, you wrote: >>Feeling really quite stupid in the face of the recent "MESS" posts, I'd >>like to come back to something a little nearer my field of >>preoccupations. >> >>I shoot mainly slides with my M system. With my previous systems (from >>other brands) I had the habit of keying in a slight underexposure ratio >>(between 1/3 and 1/2 stop)when I wanted to accentuate colour saturation. >>I've done this a few times with my M system but even 1/3 stop seems to >>be too much. So I stopped doing it altogether. >> >>My question is: does Leica systematically induce underexposure through >>their calibration settings or is my meter not behaving the way it should >>? And if this is Leica calibration, has it been defined once and for all >>? I would say that for a given ISO setting, my M6 underexposes by 1/3 >>stop at least. >> >>Again, if this is Leica policy, would it not explain at least part of >>the "Leica difference" when slides are the media and non informed users >>the viewers ? ;-) >> >>Alan >>Brussels-Belgium >> >