Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In message <2.2.32.19960804050215.0037e74c@mail.cdsnet.net>, Eric Welch <ewelch@cdsnet.net> writes >It's not off unless it gives bad exposures on film. Over the years, with >various cameras I've used, they seem to vary in what the readouts give, but >when you use them, they seem to give good (or bad depending on the camera) >exposures. I find that my Leica M6 gives me different readings than my >EOS1n, but in the end, by using its meter (and trusting it a lot more than >I'm inclined to) yeilds fine results. And believe me, shooting chrome as a >professional, I'd better be right on. And I am (when I have my brain >engaged. <g>) The problem I have with this is that if I decide to use a different meter in a particular situation, say for an incident light reading that I'm using due to the needs of that particular photographic situation, then a camera that gives a different meter reading (from my correect meters) but corrects for it internally (presumably by giving an incorrect exposure that compensates for the incorect reading by going in the other direction) will not give the exposure I'm setting! So if my M6 suggest half a stop less, but gives half a stop more anyway, thus giving a correct exposure when its internal meter is used, then it will give me half a stop more than I want when I use another (correct) meter. Thus the meter *and* the camera will need ajusting... Am I missing something? -- joe b.