Re: [Leica] Ted gives good advice

["Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>]

Nathan:

Before considering you shutter is off, make sure it was not your metering.
The SL has a spot metering which can take some getting used to.  Whenever
doing a test like you did using slide film, it is best to meter with an
incident meter which you know is correct.  If you used the in Camera meter,
it may just mean your meter is off.  A good test for a meter is to point
the camera at the north sky during the midday, and on a clear sunny day you
should read f16 at the recirocal of your film speed.  In other words, set
the film speed to 125 and point at the north sky with a short telephoto and
it should meter to 1/125 at F16.

Regards,

Robert

At 09:21 AM 6/25/99 +0200, you wrote:
>A week or so ago I posted a question about the shutter on Leicaflex
>camera, specifically whether there was a pattern of problems at high
>speeds. I received many replies from Leicaflex owners, mostly indicating
>that there were no special problems. As usual, Ted's advice was
>something to the effect, "just go and take some pictures and see if they
>are OK!" So I did, shooting half a roll of E200 at 1/2000 and the other
>half at 1/1000. I am happy to see that the slides are all evenly
>illuminated, thus no sign of shutter problems. They are uniformly
>slightly overexposed, perhaps half a stop, indicating that the real
>shutter speeds when set at 1/2000 and 1/1000 are something like 1/1500
>and 1/700 respectively. But since it is consistent, it is not a real
>problem, as I can simply compensate for it. In any event, I understand
>that this is a very common problem with all mechanical shutters.
>
>In the end, Ted's advice was right on the money. I even got some good
>shots out of the exercise.
>
>Nathan
>
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