Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: metering middle grey
From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@istar.ca>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 19:32:24 -0300

Carl:

Have you ever hear the expression " He who has more than one watch (clock)
does not know what time it is".

Regards,

Robert

At 05:35 PM 4/7/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> 
>> >From the Rollei List Bob Shell has authoritatively and convincingly
>> turned my head around.
>> He says middle grey is 13% and the middle grey card is 18% so you have
>> to open a half stop when you use it.
>
>SNIP
>
>> Anything else you guys/gals want to tell me before my hair falls out. I
>> know about Santa.
>> Mark :-) Rabiner
>
>I just checked my meters against a grey card. All ISO 400:
>
>M6 1/500 @ f5.6
>MR4 1/500 @ f8.0
>MR4 1/500 @ f5.6 1/2
>Minolta Flashmeter IV 1/500 @ f4.0 8/10
>Minolta Spotmeter F 1/500 @ f4.0 2/10
>
>
>Aaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>-- 
>Carl Socolow
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>http://members.tripod.com/SocPhoto/
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