Thanks Erich. I wish it were that easy. If the exposure were consistantly off by 1 stop or however many stops, that would make my life easy. But when it varries at different f-stops that makes my life unbearable to the point where I think I am going to return the camera as Costco has a 90 day return privilage. I am not blaming the camera. It works fine with the kit lens. It is just not doing what I was intending it to do.
Is this also a problem with the 4/3 crowd out there? Or can you successfully meter at any f-stop w/o having to constantly change the +/- settings?
Aram
From: Ejak <ejak@xxxxxxx> Reply-To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [LRflex] Re: Leicanon exposure problems Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:36:57 -0700 Hello Aram,I use Leica & Contax glass on my Canon 10D, (as well as Canon), and most of the time I have the exposure-compensation dial set to minus 1, to get the correct exposure. This setting is easy and quick on the 10D, and if there is a lot of white in the frame, I set it all the way to minus 3, and after exposure I double check the histogram.No problem whatsoever. Hope this helps. With best regards, Erich Kozak ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aram Langhans" <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 6:42 PM Subject: [LRflex] Re: Leicanon exposure problemsAperture priority or manual mode. Either one, same results. I also went back and used my old adaptor w/o focus confirmation and the results were the same. Just did another test using flash. The flash exposures were all very consistant until I stopped down too much for the flash to provide enough light. They then got dark. My problem without the flash is overexposure as I stop down. The meter in either aperture priority or manual is overcompensating for the stopped down lens and the more I stop it down the more it overcompensates with the shutter speed.I am ready to return the camera. Does anyone know if the Olympus 4/3 cameras have this problem? Is there an focus confirmation for the Olympus camera yet? I don't see one advertised.From: David Young <telyt@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [LRflex] Re: Leicanon exposure problems Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:16:30 -0700 At 29/07/2007, you wrote:I finally got a focus confirmation adaptor and an eyepiece magnifier for my Rebel XTi and have been quite disappointed with its exposure performance using Leica R lenses. I just conducted a more scientific test and this is what I found. Using the 35-70/4 zoom, it meters dead on with the lens at f4. If I stop down to f-5.6 if is 1/2 stop over exposed. If I stop down to f-8 it is 1 stop over exposed. This is consistent with what I found out yesterday using the 50 when I was noticing some of my shots were over exposed and other were dead on. I am using either manual mode or aperture priority metering mode. Both do the same thing, obviously, since AE mode is just duplicating what the meter says in manual mode.I don't remember this problem when I would use the school's original Rebel.Has anyone seen this? Is there a solution? (yeah, DMR or wait for R10).AramGood Sunday Mornin', to you, Aram!Hmmmm... I'm using the FC adapters with a 30D and find the exposures quite consistent. I use Aperture Priority mode only ... which (along with manual) are the only modes known to work with the adapters. Are you using AP or AE (Auto Exposure) mode?Cheers! --- David Young, Logan Lake, CANADA Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/ Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt Stock Photography at: http://tinyurl.com/2amll4 ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/_________________________________________________________________ http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=hmtextlinkjuly07 ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/
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