Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html No Archive _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html