Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:27 PM 1/12/98 -0800, Jim Brick wrote: >For Leicas, it's the fact that a portion of the incoming light is directed >through a partially silvered mirror (the SLR mirror), for exposure >determination. The partially silvered mirror (beam splitter) acts as a >polarizer and will give incorrect exposure readings with a linear polarizer. Uh, Jim, look to the subject line. We're speaking of M6's here, not R's. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!