Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If I wanted to throw myself into a panic before an important job a ways back I would start comparing meters. If I wanted to screw up the job I would start adjusting them to match up to each other. My best bet then was to not throw myself into a panic but trust them. My Meter on my TLR Rollei 2.8 F made the pictures I took with that camera come out right. And so on. Each meter is made to make its camera happy. Dumb? Dumb. If I started worrying that these reading did not compare with my hand held meter I would really be in bad shape. But as someone undoubtably said or should have "There is an absolute reality" Only a year ago I did an all meter check putting the results in a chart thing made in Filemaker. My Rollei 35 had the wrong battery in it which explained why its reading was a couple of stops off from all others. There are different schools of meters I discovered from my test. I saw patterns. I think meters in camera think they are looking at zone 6 or one stop over. Meters without batteries like the Rollei TLR, the Hasselblad crank and the Gossen Pilot which I suspect are all the same exact meter want an extra stop in low light and take off a stop at the Beach. A Grey card will give you any reading you want it too if you hold it at the right angle. My M6 agree's with my Minolta Spot F which agrees with most of my Nikons. That calms me down a lot. I need much less tranquilizers. Mark :-) Rabiner "Why should I use a meter? What if the darn thing broke on me when I was out making a photograph? Then what would I do?" Brett Weston 1992