Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] hey Jim, what do you think of M6 meter?
From: thibault collin <tc-lnc@u-picardie.fr>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 17:01:50 +0200

Thanks Ted, 

That's a good way to expose!!
Thib.

At 07:27 08/06/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>thibault collin wrote:
>>I'm new with the M6 and I'd like to know how to meter properly...
>>I'm just back from Kosovo where I brought two M bodies (M6 and M4) and two
>>summicrons (35 and 50).
>>Since I did not really know how to measure with the M6,>>>>>
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>The M6 is a piece of cake for exposure it doesn't take a brain surgeon to
>make it work, however I'm sure there'll be umpteen dozen versions of how to
>do it that will only complicate and screw-up many of your exposures.
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>Do this and it works...period!
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>Point the camera at the subject, turn the apeture ring and or the shutter
>speed dial to make the little red light arrowheads to the same brightness,
>press shutter release.........PERFECT EXPOSURE! It can't get any simpler
>than that!
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>Now there will be 22 further explanations about varying degrees of light
>angle, colour of background etc etec ad nauseum....!
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>Screw it,  when the two red lights are lit just press the damn shutter
>release and you'll have correct and usable exposures. :)
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>Keep "simplicity in mind" and you can rarely go wrong with the M6 and it's
>exposure meter.
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>ted.
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>Ted Grant
>This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler.
>http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
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