I just got a new M6 classic. It has obviously a meter. Do I set the ISO at the back plate first before i meter? I should think so. Sorry, if it sounded stupid. Just need to confirm.

FYI, I just shot one roll without adjusting the ISO round dial. I used Tri X and the dial was at ISO 100. Im dead ;(

-- Travis koh (teckyy@hotmail.com), February 24, 2002

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Dont't feel stupid Trevor. If anyone is going to make you feel stupid, it is only to make themself feel good. And hopefully there are not too many of those sorts in this forum. Congratulations on you purchase. Any questions you have are welcome here. The only stupid thing you could do was to not ask questions for fear of ridicule.

Anyway to answer your question. You can change the ISO any time you like. Just as long as you realise that each time you take a reading after the change, the meter will take into account the ISO set. SOMetimes you may want to change mid role for exposure compensation purposes if there are many shots that need to be compensated for....such as snow or backlit shots. Otherwise, set your ISO and take pictures with the confidence of those greats before you who have shot so well with Leica. "Travis Cartier Weston".

-- Kristian (leicashot@hotmail.com), February 24, 2002.

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Don't worry about it. The first film I shot in an M6 was two rolls of Sensia 100, which I exposed at EI 25!!! Luckily I was able to find a lab who rescued the film by pull-processing it.

-- Tim Franklin (tim_franklin@mac.com), February 24, 2002.

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Thx kris.

-- Travis koh (teckyy@hotmail.com), February 24, 2002.

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Hey Travis!

Congradulations! You've joined the insanity! Actually, shooting T-X at 100 is okay. Develop at normal and see what happens.

With negative film you can overexpose a good deal and still get usable result.

If you shot in heavily shadowed areas luck may be on your side.

-- Alex Shishin (shishin@pp.iij4-u.or.jp), February 24, 2002.

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Travis, That's not stupid. You want stupid? Here's stupid...

Yesterday I shot nearly an entire role in my M2 with the lens cap on! Maybe that's the REAL reason why Leica put a meter in the M6, not because anybody needed a meter, because people like me left the lens caps on!

Never happened to me on any of my Nikons!!! :)

-- MikeP (mike996@optonline.net), February 24, 2002.

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Underdevelop the film. Try with another roll of Tri-X shot at ISO100 if you dont want to make clip tests off the roll you've shot. Experiment with 10% and 20% shorter development times. Overexposing and underdeveloping b/w is an old pro's trick for bringing out shadow detail.

-- Fred Sun (redsky3@yahoo.com), February 24, 2002.

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Travis, That's not stupid. You want stupid? Here's stupid...

Yesterday I shot nearly an entire role in my M2 with the lens cap on! Maybe that's the REAL reason why Leica put a meter in the M6, not because anybody needed a meter, because people like me left the lens caps on!

Never happened to me on any of my Nikons!!! :)

Hey Mike, above is a picture of the famed psychic Uri Geller doing exactly what you described. In addition to several thousand bent spoons in his portfolio this artist lays claim to taking some compelling shots of himself through the lens cap. So the take home message here is don't pooh-pooh a photographic technique until you've personally given it ample investigation.

;-)

-- John (ouroboros_2001@yahoo.com), February 24, 2002.

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The thing that always disgusted me whenever I left the lens cap on, is how the dummies you are photographing fail to notice that the lens cap is on while you are photographing them...! Don't they realize that they can't get their pictures taken if they won't clue in the photographer about this sort of thing? This is another reason I use lens protection filters! No lens caps!

-- Frank Horn (owlhoot45@hotmail.com), February 24, 2002.