Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:50 AM 11/17/00 -0700, you wrote: >Tina, > >Are you using the meter as a reflected meter or an incident meter? If you >are using it as an incident meter, you may be shading the dome slightly with >the filter rim and your hand. I just repeated your experiment with the same >meter in reflective mode, ISO 3200 and the speed set at 125th (f stop was >1.4 and 4/10ths). The UV filter reduces light by 1/10 of a stop. I tried two >different types of B+W UV filter, one single coated and one multicoated and >got the same results both times. The dome is off. I'm using it as a reflective meter. I still say 1/10 of a stop is enough to make a difference in the dark. >Now none of this is to encourage you to use UV filters! I do not use them >(except in salt spray or in sandy wind). Nor is this intended as >instruction!! I do would never give you, Ted, Jim, Mike and others >advice!!!!!!!!!!! I only continue to subscribe so I can get the pearls of >photographic wisdom that you Olympian Photographers pass on to us mere I learn a lot here, too, John; but I'm not about to start using filters! Even one photo lost to reflections or flare is too many. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com