Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/10
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At 12:31 PM 10/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I have found the L508 to be very accurate in spot meter mode. As for other
>features, it has all the features you could want to use such as multiple
>metering measurements stored in memory and then easily producing an average,
>the ability to provide EV readings instead of fstop and shutter speed, the
>zoom spot meter which is useful for very precise measurement (and it is
>accurate), the ability to store two ISO speeds and easily see what effect a
>different film speed would have on either fstop or shutter speed.
Yes, you're right: I'd forgotten about those other features, and they can
be handy. *But* I insist that the spot meter is a bit of a dog. Unless
you never meter in Zones 2 and 3. It simply has no low-light
sensitivity. Sekonic admits this: the EV specs are abysmal.
And for something that's really just a glorified incident meter, I think
it's way overpriced, and heavy.
DC
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