Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Adjustable selective metering?
From: Martin Howard <mvhoward@mac.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 18:24:58 -0500

John Collier wrote, in part:

> I must confess that I just about died laughing when I read that passage in
> the book. I have no idea how he ever came to think that! The meter does not
> work that way. It is as your manual states a strongly center-weighted
> pattern. You can only can change the meter's field of view by switching lens
> focal lengths.
> 

Switching the focal length (sometimes) also switches the framelines.  Maybe
he got the two mixed up...

M.

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