Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B. D. Wrote: >>> My biggest problem with Matrix metering is me - I have a really really hard > time trusting it - even though I intuitively 'know' that it works > beautifully.<<< G'day B.D. I guess to make you feel real comfortable with it you'll just have to buy an R8 for it's metering system, as it's so on the mark, it makes you a lazy photographer at taking meter readings. :-) I found that if I don't keep the "bracketing" factors in mind while shooting say sunrise or set, the camera is so perfect you blow off half dozen rolls and never bracket because the camera does a right on the mark and you just let it rattle away. Consequently you end up with 6 rolls of sunset with 6 X 36 frames perfectly exposed film, all keepers and users. When in fact very nearly any sunset or rise can use copious amounts of bracketing for the unknown effects you only see on the light table later. And yep there's auto bracketing on the motor which I use when I remember or when I do, then Sandy is carping at me about burning too much film. :-) I have the utmost faith in both the M6 and R8 metering and expect better from the M7, whatever the camera says, I do! Unless it's obviously way off the mark. Which I can honestly say I've rarely had happen, I suppose due to tempering whatever is read with experience and gut factor as to whether it's right or not. I shot a dozen rolls B&W on Friday and Saturday evening's before, during our family Easter dinner. Later with the M6 in not the brightest of light, family watching old videos of the kids when very young. The light was a couple of normal floor lamps not on brightest setting and light from a large TV screen, not a shoot out at high noon! ............ every exposure right on the mark. Note the exposure was on the mark....... I didn't say the picture results were! ;-) Go with the flow and don't worry, worrying creates screw ups because one thinks too much about what's happening instead of accepting the red lights are on............shoot! Certainly when yer using a Leica! ;-) Yeah right. ;-) ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html