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Subject: [Leica] 28mm Summicron + M8 on Auto = Overexposure?
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:59:55 -0500
References: <30db39f20910241948h67e11661g33fdbbdf2acb6bc5@mail.gmail.com>

Bob,

The third image is impressive for a 100% crop.  Very sharp and nice colors.

Since the posted images are jpegs, I was just curious as to whether the 
image was shot RAW or jpeg?

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert D. Baron" <rbaron at concentric.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 9:48 PM
Subject: [Leica] 28mm Summicron + M8 on Auto = Overexposure?


> I've been trying to decide what and why is going on here.  The 28mm
> Summicron, when used on my M8 set on automatic, is slightly
> overexposing the "frame".
>
> See http://www.bobbaron.com/28CronOct09/index.html .
>
> The first frame is out of the camera at ISO 320, -1/3 EV (stop)
> exposure.  It is washed out.  The second frame is the same image
> adjusted down another half stop in Lightroom and is a lot closer to
> what a correct exposure should be.
>
> Do wider lenses throw the metering off somehow?
>
> I can take some of the pain out of this obviously by setting the
> camera to expose at -2/3 rather than -1/3 when I use this lens, but
> I'm just curious as to what is going on.
>
> The lens is pretty nice; the third frame is a 100% crop (also iso 320)
> with a little more tweaking in Lightroom.
>
> --Bob
>
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