Re: [Leica] Re: nightclub advice (now EV)

["Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com>]

Thanks for clearing that up.  I thought it was because my friend had the
Zone converted Pentax spotmeter that the EV scales didn't correspond, if
Pentax invented a new EV numbering scale, that would explain it.

Anyhow, I wasn't trying to win.  EV is alive and well, we just use it in our
heads now.   I'm glad I started photography when it was common, because it
made it oh so much easier to see those relationships for someone who took
Math 101 as often as I did.

Sonny


- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JCB" <jcb@visualimpressions.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 3:52 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: nightclub advice (now EV)


> At 03:27 PM 8/24/2003 -0700, Sonny Carter wrote:
> >I had the distinct impression, though it has been a while since I used
one,
> >that the Pentax spot meter reports an EV too, and you have to set it on
the
> >calculator wheel to derive the f stop and shutterspeed.
>
>
> The Pentax meter DOES NOT read out in EV's. It is simply a number (Pentax
> mistakenly called it EV) that is transferred from the inside to the
> outside. If you set the ASA to 100, then the meter reads in direct EV's.
> But ONLY at that ASA.
>
> But you win one. My Brockway (Studio Deluxe) meter has an LVS scale which
> is indeed EV numbers.
>
> I was speaking about my meters. Leica MC, Brockway, Weston Master II,
> Pentax Digital Spot. Yes, the Brockway has actual EV numbers. The others
don't.
>
> Neither do my M6's, my R7's, or my Leica MC meter on my M3.
>
> JB
>
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