Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I disagree with Austin on some of his points.... ... I have had 6 or 7 Pentax Digital meters in the same place at the same time..... ( no, not all mine.... ) some were factory stock, others were Zone VI modified..... We metered trees, grass, etc. and basically the modified by Zone VI and the un modified meters gave the same results. Then we tried a few man made bizarro colors... really candy apple red, purple, etc. and got very different results. The mods did shift the metering cell..... CDS cells, are supposed to be the truest to film... Silicon Blue have the widest bandwidth, and therefore must be "choked down" by filtering to achieve results like you might expect... To Austin's point, they SHOULD be a;l modified to achieve the same results..... The other difference is the film sensitivity..... My testing says that TMax 100 has a differennt response than does Tri-X.... Tmax is "greener"... the greens are hotter, print lighter, etc..... Bottom line is test, test, test...... and use only 1 meter, or else ecxpect to be testing all the time, and not taking pictures! BTW, my trip to Europe was all metered on my M6TTL meter, off my HAND as a subject.... the exposures were very consistent and that was over a period of 3 weeks of daily shooting.... This is more similar to metering a Kodak 18% grey card... but it does work..... Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net Different sensors do see colors on different curves, but the metering system are designed to take this into consideration and should still give (reasonably) the same results. ======================================================================= Austin,