Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]sam said: Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 Meter Sensitivity > I don't use the in-camera meter for really low light. The M6's meter > takes in too large an area to effectively meter a subject with a large > area of dark surrounding it. One would still be forced to read the scene > and then adjust the two or three stops difference manually. The M7 uses > the same metering spot as the M6 so changing cameras is not really > helpful. The problem is not the sensitivity of the meter but the area it > reads.<<<<< Could someone please tell me everytime I see this kind of post about M6 and M7 metering I want to puke? Dang the thousands of rolls I've shot with 3 M6's at a time since 1985 and used the metering with, "when the little red lights come on... shoot!" And literally thousands upon thousands of exposures of perfectly printable negatives. Take a look in the book DOCTORS' WORK, page after page of M6 exposures and not a hand meter in the bag. The new book out this summer, "WOMEN in MEDICINE" all shot with M6's, Sandy Carter, me... 3 new M7's and in three months over 500 rolls of Tri-x at ASA 800. Frame after frame on the mark, so what the hell are Sandy and I doing not to have screwed up exposures because the meters read too big an area? And no I don't make manual adjustments, hell the M7's were used 99.9999% of the time on AE lock without any thought about exposure other than working in critically low level light that the shutter speed exposure was not less than a 1/4 of a second for hand holding exposures. So about this large area coverage and not reading properly and making manual adjustments? Please. ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html