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Subject: Re: [Leica] M7 at a Bris
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 09:31:40 -0700
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John Collier WROTE:

>>> If the M7 had a button or a switch that would allow you to hold a
> setting for multiple exposures, you would be right. Unfortunately the M7
> in AE mode only locks the setting for one exposure. In this situation I
> would meter manually once and just keep shooting until the light
> changed. This is not something you can do with the M7 in AE.<<

Hi John,
I don't understand what you mean? It doesn't allow exposure lock for
multiple exposures?

All you have to do is keep taking pictures and the meter in AE keeps
selecting the right exposure. And from the experience of some 50 rolls of
film shot in the past couple weeks of which all exposed in AE, every
exposure has been as far as I'm concerned right on the mark and printed very
well.

Actually the test we did when the camera arrived was to shoot a roll of 36
under as many different light situations as possible... then soup it to look
at the negs. Much to my surprise every negative was exposed to a level that
when we printed 30 negs at the same enlarging time every print was
acceptable.

And the experience since then has been roll after roll of equally exposure
balanced negatives.

So I come back to the question " Why would the AE require another button to
lock the exposure for the identical exposure?"  When if you keep shooting
the same scene or nearly so, the AE lock will give you equally balanced
virtually identical exposures.

And if one were to require absolute identical exposures then the obvious
thing is... "don't AE "  go manual get the shoot over and return to AE when
finished.

Why would it be necessary to add another electric switch?

ted

Ted Grant Photography Limited
www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant


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