Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Even if I'm sitting still my subjects are jumping in and out of different lighting conditions with a wide variety of backgrounds. Auto exposure has not worked well for me unless the critter stays in the same light as the background and is the same tonal value as the background and if that's the case what's the advantage of auto exposure? Just more stuff I don't need to remember: Is the animal staying in the same light? if so, is the meter going to be fooled by the background? if not then I can use auto exposure. If this is where AE works, what's the point of it? Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com -----Original Message----- >From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> >Sent: Jan 30, 2014 6:36 PM >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Comparing B&W M9/MM > >Different horses for courses. In a fast moving street situation, auto-stuff >is useful and one can learn exactly how much the meter is fooled. If you >are sitting around in one area or in areas where the exposure is relatively >similar, then of course manual is just fine. > > >On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at >earthlink.net>wrote: > >> Geoff Hopkinson wrote: >> >> >Or more precisely, the Leica large spot meter is a dumb, simple system >> that >> >does exactly what a dumb system does, accurately and predictably. What >> >you >> >told it, not what you meant! No training wheels ;-) ;-) >> >When you get the wrong result (as I do regularly) the error is not inside >> >the camera ;-) ;-) ;-) >> >> Exactly why I use manual exposure 100% of the time. The light meter is >> totally, predictably dumb. I never have to guess what the meter is >> compensating for and guess how much compensation I need to reverse. >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > >-- >// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >// http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information