Bill said: I think there is a problem with the ME and MES. Using just the orange filter, the TTL metering in my MES (which I THINK is fixed) shows a 1 stop correction. The data sheet shows 2 1/3 stops correction. This morning I shot a roll of FP4 (ISO 125) in my Yashica Mat, using a Minolta IIIF incident meter at ISO 25 and the negatives appear perfect. Using the MES in TTL would have underexposed by 1 1/3 stops.
Bill, I find this a bit surprising. I checked 3 of my cameras, an ME Super, Super Program and a k1000 with a hoya y (k2) filter--the Me Super and the Super Program did not register any change, and the k1000 may have moved just a smidge. I put the filter in front of a luna pro F and it registered less than 1/3 of a stop change. This may mean they were all being consistent and the change in transmittance was not enough to move those lovely colored diode lights. I have always had this problem with all of my cameras and so use filter factors and manual metering. Didn't someone suggest that filter factors have to do with the sensitivity of the film and not the light meter? That seems to be consistent with what I am seeing. How do folks deal with this who don't manually meter? For anyone interested, here is a very nice site that has a lovely filter chart at the end: http://www.photo.net/photo/filters.html Dave Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
