Leica R4 light meter not working

[Bui777]

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Hello. I’ve just recently got a lovley R4 and it came with Tamron f2.5 28mm lens but it seems that the light meter doesn’t work like it should. I’ve put a roll of 100 ISO, set it in manual mode on a sunny day, set the aperture to f16 and expected to see the LED showing me to use 1/125 speed. But insted i get really slow speeds (something like 1/4). Also in automatic mode shutter seems to be open for way too long for the conditions i was shooting at. I was wondering if anybody might have had a simmilar problem and if so can it be fixed. Could it be the lens or the camera electronics? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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