Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You might want to consider calibrating your meter to your film/camera/lab choice. It is quite easy to do. Go outside on a day when the light is even and not changing, partly cloudy is NOT a good day for this Take some paper and mark it so: 0, 1/2, 1, 1 1/2, 2 and then -1/2, -1, -1 1/2, -2 Get someone to hold the paper and shoot them at what the meter reads and have them show 0. Then bracket in 1/2 stop increments, use the + marks to signify over exposure, the - to signify the underexposure. Get the film processed and then judge which has the correct exposure and be sure then to always adjust your meter that much when shooting. If you change films or labs you will need to repeat this process. Oh also be sure to look at your M6 shutter curtain when the camera is cocked. That little white circle is your metering pattern. Be sure to keep that in mind when you are metering something, a white subject will skew the meter to underexpose and a dark subject will skew it to over expose. Look for something middle gray. Oh and having said all that looking at your photos they do not look that bad, most are pretty close to correct. Keep in mind chromes are more contrasty and saturating the colors is a good thing in chromes, I think. Yama Nawabi wrote: > http://flickr.com/photos/helloyama/ > > shot with velvia, m6ttl, and Summicron 35 v3 > > i still need to work on metering with the m6, a lot of shots are > underexposed, so I guess I need to overexpose a half stop to a stop. > > Does anyone have any tips? Thanks! > > -Yama Nawabi >