[LRflex] Re: R3 meter
- From: Miha Golobic <miha.golobic@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:29:25 +0100
Thank you Alex, your test was very helpful!
BTW, I still very much enjoy the Stone Age :-)
Anyone willing to explain this?
Best regards,
Miha
2009/2/18 Alex Hurst <corkflor@xxxxxx>
> Miha and others wrote:
>
> *How about metering without any lens at all?*
>
> The difference is 3,5 stops.
>
>
>
> *Or use a neutral grey card - if you don't have one, the palm of your hand
> is near enough right*.
>
> Still, the difference is 1 stop
>
>
>
> The differnce only occurs in bright light.
>
> This morning the readings off the white wall (in my kitchen) gave me 1 stop
> difference, now in the evening the readings in selective and integral mode
> are the same - f8 1/2s, ISO 800.
>
> The point I see is that the integral mode is right in bright* and* dim
> light, but that the selective mode reads abuot 1 stop (and it is wrong) less
> in bright light.
>
>
>
> I would like to stress that all readings were taken with 90mm lens off
> evenly lit surfaces.
>
>
>
> Have any of you Flexers noticed this phenomena with your R3 or R4-R7
> cameras?
>
>
> I've just dug my little-used R3 MOT out of the cupboard and carried out a
> swift and dirty exposure test with the 90 'cron.
>
> FWIW my experience is exactly the same as yours, Miha. The spot reading is
> a stop more than the integral reading. - or, to put it another way, at the
> same stop the shutter speed reads 1/60th for integral and 1/30th for spot
> when pointed at an area of continuous and uniform tone.
>
> So it looks like this is characteristic of the R3. Why I know not.
>
> BTW, I note that back in the Stone Age I attached a piece of Dymo tape to
> the top of the pentaprism which reads 'OFF'. It's all too easy to drain the
> battery by forgetting that this camera has an on/off switch independent of
> the film advance lever.
>
> Best of light.
>
> Alex
>
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