Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: metering middle grey
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:21:53 -0700

Meters often don't agree unless forced to, and then usually not at the
lowest light levels.

My handheld meters (5 of them) are in pretty good agreement when doing
similar tasks (within 1/3 stop over 90% of their common ranges) after
tweaking.

My Nikon meters are within 1/3 stop in all metering modes (4 bodies of 3
types).

However, my Canon bodies have problems. My Elan II and EOS3 agree when
reading an even surface, or when using center weighted metering, but not
when using matrix metering on a contrasty scene. Then they differ by as
much as a stop. Very confidence destroying. Understandably, I don't use
matrix metering with the Canons anymore.

You have to trust your meters, and you have to know what they are doing.
The Canons don't give me that. All my other meters do, including Leica,
Mamiya, etc.

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