Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M7 Photo
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 16:39:10 -0400
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At 04:21 PM 6/30/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Sorry.  As an M6 owner, I thought the M7 metered on a center spot like the
>M6.  Does the M7 meter very differently from the M6, or have my M6
>assumptions also been wrong?
>
>Thanks.........Julian

No, you're not wrong.  They meter the same.  Here is what Leica says:

"The camera measures the light reflected by a white spot in the center of 
the first shutter curtain. That spot has a diameter of 12 mm and it covers 
approx. 13% of the full film format."

I just try to put that 13% in the center on something that is about 
photo-gray.  The meter on the M6's and 7's does seem to be more affected by 
back light than the meter on the R's.  Even if the bright light is outside 
of the 13% center, it seems to affect the exposure.  I might be wrong, but 
that's the way it seems to work for me.

Tina

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