Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/29

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Subject: [Leica] R lenses on any Digital body - exposure problem
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Thu Jan 29 14:29:19 2009
References: <C5A7DC3B.2014C%lug@steveunsworth.co.uk>

On Jan 29, 2009, at 3:20 PM, Steve Unsworth wrote:

> The overexposure does indeed increase as you stop down as you say.  
> Guessing
> I'd say it was a stop from f2-f16. That's why I had the permanent
> compensation dialled into the camera - to protect the highlights when
> stopped down.
>
> Was I the only person happy with the 5D and Leica lenses? Certainly  
> if the
> M8 hadn't been released I'd still be using the 5D and Leica glass.


I still have my 5D and R lenses, I will certainly play some more,  
following your recomendations Steve...

That was basically the way I did it,  but the over exposure trend with  
stop down  was much greater and had to be corrected in some other way,  
or I mostly just shot wide open,

Steve
>
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 29/1/09 22:12, "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> it seems that if you don't stop down much, you don't overexpose much,
>> and the images esp RAW are fixable...
>>
>> but you are talking about a minor problem, with no compensation  
>> except
>> at the end processing stage,
>
>
>
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