Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/08

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Subject: [Leica] Underexposing Leica M8
From: jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)
Date: Mon Oct 8 12:55:04 2007
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2007-10-08-15:40:18 Brian Reid:
> I've had my M8 set on -1EV exposure compensation for many months, after 
> experimenting with other values. It seems to give me the best results for 
> the kinds of pictures I do.

Mine live at -2/3, with occasional excursions elsewhere (usually a
little farther into nominal underexposure or just into a manual exposure
setting) as conditions require.

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