Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/19
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> I'll take a crack at this too, although I apologize if this has
> already been covered in too much detail...
I agree. I've been deleting like crazy over the past
two days. But forgive me to make one comment regarding
English (this comes from an originally non-native):
Knoles (tgk@mwa.org) wrote...
> Eastland's _M Compendium_, which I think is otherwise an excellent
> book, contains a serious error in its discussion of M6 metering. He
> says that changing the framelines will actually change the area
> metered, which of course isn't true....
To me, Eastland's sentence means that the region in space
which is being photographed and which is being metered - is
affected by which lens one has mounted. Changing the lens,
changes the frame lines and shows which region in the real
world is being metered.
> changes on an M6 is the size of the area _in the viewfinder_ which
> is metered, and this depends on the focal length of the lens used ...
<snip> ...
> By changing to framelines that are 50% higher (50 for 35, 75
> for 50, etc.) you get a simply get a rough approximation of the part of the
> image that is being metered.
Oh. Maybe you got it also.
OK. Enough of this. Let's go take some pictures and find
out.
-- Wolfgang
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Wolfgang Sachse Cornell University
sachse@msc.cornell.edu http://www.msc.cornell.edu/~sachse
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