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whitecat

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I am looking into this lens. Is it coupled to the meter and does it take into account my yellow or orange filters?
Thanks
 
There's no need for coupling to the meter because the ZI is stop down metering so yes the meter works and will read your filter.
 
As long as your meter measures through the lens, which I am sure it does, then it will take into account any filter you put on the lens. The 12 is not rangefinder coupled - maybe that's where you got confused.
 
Better use a handheld meter

Better use a handheld meter

Hi Whitecat,

I have the 12mm and due to the extreme angle of view the area of metering with e.g an M6 is just too big. The best thing to do is using an handheld meter to be more accurate. I've a small/light Gossen Digisix and no complaints so far.
 
It's a great lens. Filters can be used on this lens by purchasing the filter adapter. It takes 77mm screw in filters I believe.
 
Yep, I have one, and the 77mm adapter, it meters just fine, but wiiiiiiiiidddddddeeeee so I tip the camera well down and meter mainly the foreground. Or I use a handheld spot meter, for more critical measurements.

Great lens, need to get out and use it more. Last time (few days ago) was the contents cooking on my BBQ grill, shot from a foot away with the L:)
 
No TTL meter properly exposes thru colored filters except light yellow. The wave lengths the cells are sensistive to not exactly the same as the colored light coming thru the filter.

Meter a grey or white subject in the same color light you will use the filter with and without all the filters you will use and see if the recommended exposure has the proper filter factor. If not, use exposure compensation. The lighter the filter, the less discrepency there will be.

You will still have problems with scenes that do no average to middle grey.
 
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