Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I had to jump right in here about a high contrast exposure. A white horse and a black horse equals what? Why middle gray of course. The real question is can your film handle five to six stops of exposure latitude which most films can handle. A major Japanese manufacturer that came up with the first evaluative meter has been advertising their wares with pictures with bright and dark areas. Their claim was the fabulous abilities of the meter solved a difficult exposure problem when in reality sunny 16 would work for the scenes shown. The hardest scenes to meter are those where you want detail in very bright light and in the dark shadows. Most of the time you have to decide what to bury in shadows which no meter can solve: your brain needs to figure it out. Even fill flash only works where the foreground needs to be brought up in value. What good is it when the background needs lifting? The M7 makes sense if you want a quicker camera or a quieter camera. It also makes sense if you don't have time or don't want to deal with setting exposure. It doesn't make sense if you want to explore light and shadow with creative mistakes or are afraid of the dead battery syndrome. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html