OK, I may be missing something basic here, but if someone would just kindly kick me, I'll be fine.
I have a cheap hand held meter that I'm pretty sure is malfunctioning, but I wanted to find out by how much, so I took it and my three cameras out to a pretty much 18% grey wall behind my house to compare readings. It's a sunny day and I decided to use ISO 100. Now never mind what the meter said, it's obviously bad, but it brought up a question about the Elan 7's metering. My two manual cameras, an A-1 and a FTbN, agreed on a reading of 1/500 @ f/6.7-8. The Elan 7 I tried in all 3 metering modes, and in CW and Partial I get 1/500 @ f/9.5. In Evaluative mode, however, I get close to the other two - 1/500 @ f/8. I'm metering off an evenly-lit, featureless surface - a grey stucco wall. A) Why do you think the Elan's meter reads the scene1/2-1 stop less than the other two, and B) why do you think the Evaluative mode reads it faster than the other two? My shadow was not in the frame, and I was standing maybe 4 ft from the wall with the sun almost exactly at my back. Ken * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
