Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/29

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Subject: [Leica] Licanon Exposure Question
From: dnaplasmid at compwrx.com (Aram Langhans)
Date: Sun Jul 29 07:54:41 2007
References: <200707291232.l6TCTWDv006427@server1.waverley.reid.org>
 
I finally got a focus confirmation adaptor and an eyepiece magnifier for my 
Rebel XTi and have been quite disappointed with its exposure performance 
using Leica R lenses.  I just conducted a more scientific test and this is 
what I found.  Using the 35-70/4 zoom, it meters dead on with the lens at 
f4.  If I stop down to f-5.6 if is 1/2 stop over exposed.  If I stop down to 
f-8 it is 1 stop over exposed.  This is consistent with what I found out 
yesterday using the 50 when I was noticing some of my shots were over 
exposed and other were dead on.  I am using either manual mode or aperture 
priority metering mode.  Both do the same thing, obviously, since AE mode is 
just duplicating what the meter says in manual mode.

I don't remember this problem when I would use the school's original Rebel.

Has anyone seen this?  Is there a solution?  (yeah, DMR or wait for R10).

Aram
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