Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was judging based upon the white spot I saw on the shutter curtain yesterday while I was at the camera shop. It looked like it would be about 12mm, which gives 13% area coverage of the format. If it's 23% of the frame for a particular, the diameter of the spot is about 16mm. That's a little larger than I thought! 4mm difference in diameter makes a big difference. That's why one of the suggestions I made to Anthony included doing a crude test to determine the actual sensitivity area of the meter in the field of view. Thanks, Godfrey >The Leica M6 meter > >|integrates it's reading from an approximate 12mm central spot so it's >|about 13% of the image area. > >Actually according to the Leica M6 instructions, the meter area is >approximately 23% of the viewfinder field. The manual also contains >illustrations of the meter field for each frameline. In the case of the >35 mm >lens that Anthony is using, the metered area would include and extend beyond >the interior 135 mm frameline.