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Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW wk 19/sl
From: "olivier nguyen" <oliviertnguyen@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:03:08 -0400

to both Steve and Ted,

I would like to ask both of you at your expert level on M6TTL.  You talk 
about M6TTL spot meter in this message,  how do you obtain spot meter ?  I 
have M6TTL with 35mm lens.
please let me know
thank you
Olivier

>From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
>Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW wk 19/sl
>Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 14:19:18 -0500
>
> > Steve Lehuray showed:
> >
> >>>> This week a couple in a Georgetown bar:
> >>
> >> http://www.streetphoto.net/paw2002/paw2wk19.html<<<<
>
>
>Ted Grant writes:
> >
> > Hi Steve,
> > Knowing you use meterless cameras I bet this is an incident light 
>reading
> > exposure simply because of the overall light level look. A kind of even 
>what
> > the place looks like to the eye.
>
>Yes, an overall average incident reading for this kind of place seems so
>simple, one reading, then point-&-shoot--similar to the M7.
> >
> > It's a good one alright and has that "incident light reading" look. 
>Quite
> > often this "open look" is missed by meter in the camera exposures .....
> > unless, the photographer knows his camera and how it's reading.... this 
>is
> > done with hardly a moment of thought under these light conditions.
> > Nevertheless it's done and an adjustment in handling to where the best
> > reflective surface / area will give an even over all look is selected.
> >
> > Otherwise just pointing and shooting, the open look in this case would
> > probably be much darker due to the lights in the background making the
> > onboard meter read a higher shutter sped or smaller aperture selection..
>
>This is where the M6ttl spot meter lets me down because the spot meter is
>reading the bright lights and the gray and shadows just disappear. So for
>this kind of shot do you think I could sit there for :15 or :30 seconds
>trying to figure out what I should be reading with the spot meter? Probably
>not.
> >
> > As much as I make using the M7 sound as a simple point and shoot camera 
>in
> > the lighting environment of the recent operating room medical project,
> > there's always an instant awareness of what lights are in the frame 
>lines.
> >
> > If the lights are over powering, a slight point down or off center makes 
>for
> > an instant exposure correction and slight extra pressure on the shutter
> > release locks the exposure, then I shoot.
>
>All that is true, but the subjects that you are photographing all know that
>you are there and expect you to be fiddling around.
> >
> > Steve you always come up with what the location should look like under 
>these
> > light conditions.  And primarily by using an incident meter. Good one.
>
> > ted
> >
>
>Well tomorrow it is all M6TTL for the LHSA event in Baltimore.
>
>Ted, you are always very supportive about my photography, really appreciate
>it.
>
>Best regards,
>
>sl
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