Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/23

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Subject: Re: Intermediate apertures on M6
From: "Joe B." <Joe@azurite.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 19:25:27 +0000

In article <199611230059.AA17034@gdipa.Unibase.COM>, George Huczek
<ghuczek@gdipa.Unibase.COM> writes
>Following the discussion on intermediate shutter speeds on the
>M6, I an curious how accurately intermediate aperture settings
>can be set on the M6. I presume that metering would still function
>properly, but would film exposure be adjustable by less than 1/2
>stop settings in this way?

Yes. You can set any in-between setting you like that the aperture ring
will physically allow. More often than not I find the desired exposure
requires doing this. I treat the marked aperture settings as arbitrary
points on a continuum, and since the level of available light is also a
continuum that has no knowledge of or loyalty to the aperture markings
on a lens, that seems to make sense.
- -- 
Joe B.