Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have had my M6 is from 1985 and it meters perfectly - no tricks needed, the partial area is just right. But as Ted says, shoot from the shadow side. Actually I have not shot a slide film for a year now, I shoot colour negative film - with Leica and Rolleiflex - and have it scanned right after development. All the best! Raimo K personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho/ Quoting Marc James Small <msmall@infionline.net>: > I've not followed this thread as closely as I probably ought to have > done. > > I regularly shoot chromes with my late-Wetzlar M6 and have never had > a > problem with the metering provided by the camera. Hell, I often > shoot > chromes on my M3 using an MR-4 Leicameter, and, again, I have no > problem > with the metering. I love chromes and I love printing them via > Ilfochrome > though I've yet to figure out how to scan a slide and get it to come > out > decently. But an 8 by 10 Ilfocrhome print will scan most > wonderfully. > > I have Kodachrome slides of my parents shot in 1948 which are still > vibrant > and alive, and those were shot on an Argus Brick, for heaven's > sakes. > > Marc > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505 > >