Re: [Leica] Whether to buy a seperate meter?

[Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>]

Eric Welch wrote:
> 
> At 12:35 AM 9/6/99 +0800, you wrote:
> >Have U used an OM-4 or Ti before ? U might just be surprised at the level of
> >sophistication (and/or convenience) its multi spotmetering facility  has to
> >offer with regards to the actual  process of 'making' the picture.
> 
> I don't care if it's an OM-4Ti or Deep Blue (the computer that beat
> Kasparov in Chess). I can out-think a computer when it comes to making
> exposures in difficult light. Convenience is great, and the Nikon F5 seems
> to have the best on-the-fly metering around. For push button spot metering,
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I have a "hi light" button on my Minolta spot meter. It seems to give you 2.3
stops. It is useless to me because why should a hi light be 2.3 stops? If such a
thing were configurable it would have some use. For me as we were saying a day
or two ago the significant highlight for black and white would be 3 over. If I
could configure a meter for that I could hit that hi light button like crazy and
it would make for a faster operation for me. A hi light button one stop over for
slides would be great I would take reading off the low sky hit the highlight
button and run with it.
If I could configure a shadow button for 2 under I would get great use out of
that too. -2.7 on my Minolta meter is meaningless for me and I would have to
write it on the meter to remember what their parameters are. Where did they get
2.7 or 2.3  from? What would Olympus consider a highlight? Who the heck knows
and what would the odds be that that would have some meaning to a particular
photographers way of working that day?
Mark Rabiner