Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I also have been experiencing some wierd things with my meter. In the manual it says that even with low batterys and as long as the LED's appear the meter should still read accuratly, however i found this not to be the case. What actually would happen is that on first depressing the shutter release lightly the meter would give a correct reading ,but a few secounds later the exposure values would drop and i would have increase the exposure to get both LEDS to light up, even though the light had stayed the same. So, i changed the batterys for some new ones and it worked properly. However that was about 4-5 days ago and now the same problem seems to be occuring, but this time only when i keep the meter on reading light values for about 1-2 mins. When the meter is left alone for a few minutes the LED's seem bright again and the meter reads accuratly. In the manual it says that a new set of batterys should have an estimated length of 4,800 exposures,mmm , either my M6 eats batterys or thaeve got their facts wrong. Wenli, i would put some fresh batterys in and see if the values still differ or not. Anyone else have these problems? Regards Edd >From: "WL, Huang Wen Li" <WL.Huang@corp.sunday.com> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: "'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'" ><leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: [Leica] M6 exposure meter >Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 00:38:31 +0800 > >Dear Leica users, > >I bought a second a second hand M6 (non TTL) last week and had my first >shot >tonight. However, I found the exposure meter is so strange, it gave EV >lower than the EV given by Nikon FM2 or F70D, for example, > >FM2 / F70D (ISO 100 film) >Shutter Speed: 1/8 - 1/10 >Aperture Value: f2 >EV: ~5 > >M6 (ISO 100 film) >Shutter Speed: 1/250 >Aperture Value: f5.6 >EV: 13 > >Does it mean that my M6 has problem? I am new to M6 and RF camera, please >kindly help me... > >Many thanks. > >Best Regards, >Wenli Huang _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.