Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]er... a couple of those meters you mentioned do read out in EV. You transfer the EV to the little calc wheel to find the f stop and shutterspeed, and transfer it to your Leica. Sekonic Studio Deluxe for one. As Mark pointed out, so do the Gossens, and my Shepherd does too. I had the distinct impression, though it has been a while since I used one, that the Pentax spot meter reports an EV too, and you have to set it on the calculator wheel to derive the f stop and shutterspeed. A friend owned a zone-modified Pentax, and did not like the fact that it didn't match his Hassy EV scale. I didn't think they had many direct reading F stop/shutterspeed meters until the advent of the digital meters. That's why we movie film shooters used the Spectra meter, because you could push a slide in to represent the ASA, and it gave you the f stop directly based on 1/50th of a second. Sonny - ----- Original Message ----- From: "JCB" <jcb@visualimpressions.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 12:53 PM Subject: [Leica] Re: Re: nightclub advice > At 01:12 PM 8/24/2003 -0700, Sonny Carter wrote: > > >Well, indirectly, they do. If one uses a hand-held meter, it probably reads > >out to an EV, and shows the possible f-stop and shutter speed combinations > >that will get you a correct exposure. > > > But in order to use a Leica, as you say, you have to convert the EV to > Leica terms. f/stop & shutter speed. Leica meters and cameras do not > "read-out" in EV's and most older hand held meters do not either. My > meters, Sekonic Studio Deluxe, Weston Master II, Pentax Digital Spot Meter, > and Leica Meter MC, do not read-out in EV numbers. They give you f/stop and > shutter speed only. > > Leica film cameras don't use EV numbers. Even though EV numbers are an > exact correlation of f/stop to shutter speed, they are not found on Leicas. > Leica folks do not speak in terms of EV numbers as Hasselblad 500 series > folks do. > > But hey... we don't need no stinkin' meters. > > Yours at Sonny EV 15, > > :-) > > JB > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html