Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/07

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Subject: Re: Changing the size of the white measuring circle possible?
From: Lucien <100774.527@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 07 Mar 97 12:37:49 EST

Charles E. Love wrote:

>It's sad that we have to talk about hand-held spot meters with the M, a
>quick-shooting camera if there ever was one.  My Pentax digital is a nice
>meter which I bought to use with my medium format cameras on the tripod, but
>it's nearly as big as my M6.  The M6's meter is very accurate, but it's hard
>to know just how much it's measuring, and, despite Leica's ads, it's not at
>all selective.  I sound like a broken record, but there's no good reason
>Leica couldn't have given us spot and averaging metering in the M6 years ago
>(like the R cameras, which have a very good metering system).  Then we could
>shoot quickly with transparency film and get accurate exposures (as you can
>with recent automatic R's with spot meters and exposure lock by metering a
>midtone highlight, holding the shutter button partway down, and recomposing).

I agree with you,


Lucien