Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Aram, Easy--always shoot wide open, that's where Leica lenses excel :-) Nathan Aram Langhans wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands *Opportunistic Image Acquisition* General photography: http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville: http://www.frozenlight.eu/fotosevilla Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS!