Turtle
Veteran
I rely on it 100% with monochrome but would be reluctant to do so for chromes. You can use the spot like function to build up a picture of brightness ranges.
loic.sans
French expat in London...
Thanks all for your replies.
There's no mistake on my side, the meter in my camera underexposed everything by 1 to 1.5 stops.
Now my problem is to find a Mamiya repair center in UK.
Any suggestions?
Loic
There's no mistake on my side, the meter in my camera underexposed everything by 1 to 1.5 stops.
Now my problem is to find a Mamiya repair center in UK.
Any suggestions?
Loic
joachim
Convicted Ektachome user
I would try the distributor and see what they can offer. It is a current product still.
loic.sans
French expat in London...
Hello All,
Last week I went to a camera repair technician in London.
We spent an hour looking at the camera:
The meter has a weird behaviour, basically setting the iso dial at 50 and the camera get the correct exposure, then 100 it's about half a stop underexposed, at 200 as well then at 400 it's about 1 stop underexposed this to reach 1600 iso where it's about 1.5 stops underexposed.
The technician has never encountered anything similar before. Me neither. I have been told it won;t be an easy fix, and he promised me he'll call when he found the problem, I am still waiting for his call.
Has anyone heard anything like this before?
L
Last week I went to a camera repair technician in London.
We spent an hour looking at the camera:
The meter has a weird behaviour, basically setting the iso dial at 50 and the camera get the correct exposure, then 100 it's about half a stop underexposed, at 200 as well then at 400 it's about 1 stop underexposed this to reach 1600 iso where it's about 1.5 stops underexposed.
The technician has never encountered anything similar before. Me neither. I have been told it won;t be an easy fix, and he promised me he'll call when he found the problem, I am still waiting for his call.
Has anyone heard anything like this before?
L
dprees
Member
If your technician can't fix the problem, try Johnsons Photopia -- they service my M7 bodies when needed, and do a good job. They are the official Mamiya repair centre, I believe.
FWIW, I used to use a Pentax spotmeter with my M7 system, but a year ago stopped bothering, and switched to using the internal meter. I shoot Velvia, Astia, NPS160S and XP2, and all are well-exposed. I treat the internal meter as a large spot meter, and take the reading immediately below and to the right of the rangefinder patch. I then adjust exposure as necessary by using the exp.comp. facility on the camera.
FWIW, I used to use a Pentax spotmeter with my M7 system, but a year ago stopped bothering, and switched to using the internal meter. I shoot Velvia, Astia, NPS160S and XP2, and all are well-exposed. I treat the internal meter as a large spot meter, and take the reading immediately below and to the right of the rangefinder patch. I then adjust exposure as necessary by using the exp.comp. facility on the camera.
Avotius
Some guy
this metering problem I used to have with the Mamiya 6 as well and it was one of two reason I got rid of the system