Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Funny thing, it really doesn't make any difference what color the spot is. If it starts to yellow, what difference could it make, a 1/10th of a stop? BFD! Reflected meters used through the lens by a photographer are not accurate to within at least a half stop. The reflectance of your subject, the color, the brightness, are all subjective and when you point the camera, take a reading, you may even point the camera to the side, up at the sky, at the grass, or whatever, but you still won't be within a half stop of "exactly the perfect exposure" for any particular scene. Sometimes you are lucky, but you will be just as lucky with a yellow spot. So a minuscule shift in EV by a yellowing spot (which probably won't happen anyway) is totally insignificant. And if you send your camera in for a CLA sometime during its/your life, to anyone, they will automatically calibrate the meter so the color makes no difference. It's calibrated out. Jim >Javier Perez wrote: >> >> If it doesn't decolour about 50-60 years >> it won't matter since that's about the time >> it takes for rubberized cloth to start to cracking >> But if it happens sooner, say 30 years it will be a problem. >> What would we think of the M3 if they had started developing >> annoying poroblems in 1984.<<<<<<<<<<< > At 07:01 AM 9/26/00 -0700, Ted Grant wrote: > >Heck Javier, most of us will be in the big darkroom in sky before we >ever see the white spot change colour, so why sweat it! :-) Besides I'm >taking at least one of my M6's with me and a couple bricks of film! ;-) > >ted >Victoria, Canada >http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant