Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:41 AM 1/13/98 -0500, you wrote: >At 08:27 PM 1/12/98 -0800, Jim Brick wrote: >>For Leicas, it's the fact that a portion of the incoming light is directed >>through a partially silvered mirror (the SLR mirror), for exposure >>determination. The partially silvered mirror (beam splitter) acts as a >>polarizer and will give incorrect exposure readings with a linear polarizer. > >Uh, Jim, look to the subject line. We're speaking of M6's here, not R's. > >Marc > - -------------------------------------------- <<<<<I was told by someone ( I really forget who ) that a circular polarizer was >designed to work with the new ( 10 yrs.-? ) autofocus lenses and had >nothing to do with the metering system. Further, that a linear polarizer >would work just fine on the new lenses but that you might have a focusing >problem and should probably use them in manual focus mode if using a linear >polarizer. > >Cheers, >David Medley >Whidbey Is. WA>>>>> *********************************************** *********************************************** Uh Marc, I was answering Mr. Medley's statement about autofocus lenses and metering systems... Jim *********************************************** ***********************************************