Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:09 AM 8/24/98 +0000, you wrote: >times (I can say that with ease, as you can't libel the dead). It is >unfortunate that the M4 is so popular with collectors, as I believe >that it is a superb camera, more like an 'off-road' M4-2 than something It IS a superb camera, but so is the M6. We ought to be grateful Leica makes it as good as they do. >to be stuck in a glass case. And, as for metering, I find that after >the first quarter of a million exposures or so, you tend to go native. That is the case, but on the other hand, if I were working in black and white, I wouldn't worry so much, but even with negative film, if the exposure is off even one stop, it effects the quality of the final image. Overexposure fills the shadows up too much, and underexposure enhances grain terribly. When working in the hail mary types of light, it's important to be totally accurate. If the master of technique needs a meter even though he shows he can live without it (Ansel Adams, Moonrise Hernandez) then who am I to say I don't need meters? ;-) - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch We can never be born enough. We are human beings; for whom birth is a supremely welcome mystery that happens only and whenever we are faithful to ourselves. - - e. e. cummings