Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Auto exposure of any kind is a limited blessing. It only works well >if the scene is average." I would only agree with you if you changed 'the scene' to 'that part of the scene which is measured by the M7 exposure meter'. >If the scene consists primarily of very dark tones (black horse in >front of a black wall, a la Fred Picker), the camera will overexpose. It will do that with some hand held reflected light meters too, of course depending on what area it measures. >The opposite is true when the scene consists primarily of very light >tones (bright sky, water, white wall). The photographer always has >to evaluate the scene and decide whether to accept the meter reading >whether the camera is used in automatic or manual mode. I thought that was what the adjustment capability of the M7 is for (the plus/minus adjustment on the camera back.) After that adjustment has been made, it is full speed ahead on automatic, is it not? >In the case of the M7, even if you only use the aperture priority >function in those rare rare depends on what sort of photography you are into >instances when you cannot set the shutter and aperture manually (not >enough time or inability to get a meter reading of a known >tone--such as the palm of your hand--in the light that is falling on >the subject), you still have to set (i.e. "guess") at the aperture >setting, since workable aperture/shutter speed combinations with >respect on any given film ISO are limited. >-- > Chris (who has not got an M7 ....yet) - -- Christer Almqvist D 20255 Hamburg and / or F 50590 Regnéville sur Mer please look at my b+w pictures at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/new - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html