Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]john miller jotted down the following: > I just bought a .58 M6 body. The instruction book has a detailed > description of the metering area for each veiwfinder type as well as every > lens focal Leica makes. It shows the finder frame and the darkened area > that represents what the meter is seeing. It's the most concise and > understandable meter pattern chart that I've ever seen. I think Leica's graph is stupid, because they translate the "2/3rds of the frameline height" to the base of the frameline (which requires to you exrapolate the position of the corner, something that is cognitively difficult), when in fact, for most framelines, you can just use the portion of the framelines that are actually present. For most of them, the central 2/3rds portion is what you see. Imagine a circle where they "overlap", presto, you've got it. M. - -- Martin Howard | I was going to get onto the Information Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | Superhighway, but got stuck in a email: howard.390@osu.edu | traffic jam on the on-ramp. www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +----------------------------------------