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Godfrey, I know I should use my camera more... but (see next

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Bill, you don't know sunless days in Luxembourg...

Very helpfull article, Ed. Many thanks!!

Hello fellows!

I'm a happy M6 owner for more than 10 years, but I have to say I'm not a very regular user: unfortunatelly, I live in Luxembourg, a country where the sun is as rare product as cold beer in Sahara, showing its rare face only for a couple of days around easter and somewhere in the deep days of August, when I get "asylum" in my country, Portugal. Accordingly, the poor camera sleeps for almost 300 days a year, which explains that I never really got very used to its metering. My S.O.S. (Save Our Sun?) arises because yesterday night I developed two HP5+ (ID 11 1:1, 12 min., 20°) in which 50% of the shots were overexposed!!! (By the way, is there any good contrast reducer around??) What I usually do is to "read" light in a medium zone, or, in more extreme cases, to compensate readings made in light or shadow zones. I think I'm probably compensanting too much and should maybe trust a little more in the accuracy of the camera metering. I know this is a silly question, but I'd like to know what you fellows, more experient M6 users, "DO WITH LIGHT", how do you use the built-in meter, in which cases you adjust exposure, etc., etc. In my old times of Canon F1 with broken cell user, I was a pretty good "lightmeter" myself, but with age I became lazier and I'm now a "double orange arrow" addict... Thanx for the contributions!

Does any of you "out there" have any informations about the possible launch of a new M model, which could (let me dream...) have, for example, a compensantion button +2, -2, improved focusing system (see some of the latest questions in M forum about this issue), better TTL, and so forth, which I'm sure all of you, even if very happy (as I'm myself) with your M cameras, would like to see, say, some slight improvements in it!!

Thanks a lot for your answer. At least I have now a logical

explanation, and I'm much more relax about my material: my M6 didn't

turn crazy... It only suffers from a kind of family problem. After

all, such a "perfect" camera should have some "bug" to really be ...

perfect!

I think I have a quite peculiar problem with my M6 lightmeter: the problem is the following: as you know, light is measured through a complicated meter system, whose main "instrument" is the small round white circle in the middle of the curtain. Some months ago I noticed that the metering with the camera would give an exposition about 1 stop higher than the metering with a Lunasix lightmeter, i.e., light measured with the camera would give 125/f11 and with Lunasix 125/f8, in exactly the same conditions, needless to say. Is it possible that the problem comes from a slight loss of brilliance and "whiteness" I noticed in that central white circle? Any tips welcomed. Thanx. Nuno