Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:23:51 -0400 From: "Barney Quinn, Jr." <barney@ncep.noaa.gov> Subject: Re: [Leica] Was Copyright questions, in defense of the R8. Message-ID: <3B338D36.4CEEBC56@ncep.noaa.gov> References: <20010622060412.96416.qmail@web9104.mail.yahoo.com> <OE33SSfWXWzRPTNZStg000003d0@hotmail.com> <3B3355BF.E34179E7@ncep.noaa.gov> <OE47X50yki4jsGvs0Qz0000065a@hotmail.com> Mxsmanic wrote: > > After getting an M6, I was surprised at how accurately the primitive meter was, > overall. But then again, I suppose metering isn't really black magic, and most > meters probably get most situations right. Hey, what about the skill of the photographer? I used a Rollei SL-35 for 30 years and almost all of my exposures after the first year or so were right on. It just had a silly CDS center weighted meter, but I learned how to use it. Meter on what I wanted, perhaps not even anything in the final picture. I could meter well beyond the range of the meter. Take those readings wide open even when it told you it was 1/2 second, then stop down to what you wanted and adust the shutter. Cable release and stop watch (one chimpanze...) Matrix meter in the head. I now use an R4 (for about 9 months) and I am having the same learning curve with it. Most of my shots are coming out just fine as far as exposure goes, but maybe I wanted it a bit darker or lighter. It will come. The real test of the meter would be to give an R8, F5 or whatever to a complete novice. Set it on one of the automatic modes and tell them to shoot a few rolls of film at anything and everything forgetting what their grandfather told them about the sun at their back. Then see how the meter performs. Aram