Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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