Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well I've read Ted's and Nathan's comments and I have to say I'm just reporting my real-life, real-world experience using the 1Ds Mk II with both Leica and Canon lenses. But I think you're making something out of not-much. Maybe I'm the only guy who used exposure compensation on his R8 to adjust for scenes like snow where you KNOW the metering is going to be screwed up and you need to expose up a stop or two. For transparency film it was a must and it's the same for digital. Ted are you saying you take your M7 outside, in the snow, and shoot exactly as the camera suggests? So the snow is at middle grey? The point I was making in my comment about the difference between the Leica and the Canon lens is that with identical apertures and shutter speed I got very different exposures. I could look at the histogram and know - and I do that when I'm shooting when I don't know or understand the light: it's a very good light meter! I've read in other places that Canon plays games with its lenses and the camera. And I know that using the Leica Telyt 560 that it requires more light than the camera's metering system would have me believe. To me that's interesting information and people who use Leica lenses on Canon bodies, certainly the 1Ds MKII for sure, might want to know that. It's just information. Shooting digital you want to push the exposure so your exposure is as bright as possible without over-saturating one of the colors. Then when you pull the image in and work in Camera Raw you can pull those levels down to where they ought to be - you do this in the darkroom all the time, right? So in the lightroom it's the same. Anyway - it's not doing anything you don't do on a film camera. Leica puts in on the R cameras. Just something else to make your pics better. Adam On 1/29/06, Grduprey@aol.com <Grduprey@aol.com> wrote: > In a message dated 1/28/2006 2:59:55 PM Central Standard Time, > abridge@gmail.com writes: > The reports about how the camera's metering system adjusts for the > lens seems right on. I was setting my exposure compensation up 2 stops > for the Leica 100 APO but for the Canon the same metering, same > subject rquired 1 stop compensation. Go figure. Fun with electronics. > > > Adamk, > > The first shot is really good from my limited knowlege of the sport. I > really like it. > > This stuff about having to mess around with exposure compensation with > every > lens is what is keeping me from getting a Canon or just about any Digital > DSLR. Don't know if this is true with Nikons, but then I can't use my R > lenses on > them. But I would think the lens irrelevant with the Canon as to exposure > compensation between lenses. Seems like an awfull lot of fiddling to do > before > you can start shooting. > > Gene > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >