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how do you set the exposure on your leica m?


khemani

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Whenever possible, sunny 16, chimping and bracketing. I do not want look like I'm bragging around, but I tend not to trust the meters as these are calibrated for general use and I'd bracket anyway, so whenever possible I try to squeeze my own brain. It's a helpful exercise indeed. Digital and the screen do help a lot. If I were on films I'd purchase a spotmeter and go for the zone system.

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Am almost always indoors, usually in not that great light. I do not like the ISO settings above 320, but if the light is better I will use 640 to get some headroom. I use f/2 - f/2.8 and expose manually; you can guess within a stop under these conditions, but I do a meter check occasionally or check the histogram. I do not have the time luxury to use aperture priority and lock the exposure. I have the highlight warning enabled. I keep the shutter at 1/60 and faster, and preferably 1/125 for less motion blur. Afterwards I am usually pushing a stop.

 

Once in a while I am outdoors and there is more room for creativity.

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