I have a friend who's having this issue he describes only with his M11M and not his M11P or Q3. I often see different exposures in my images taken a second apart, and just assume that a minute change in position of the camera results in a different way that light hits the meter. Thoughts? Is this a hardware defect?
when pressing the shutter button the LV (or with EVF) will display one metered preview (I have it set to display metering result when pressing the shutter) and within a split second it will display a lower/darker exposure. This us usually a change in ISO. If I snap it right away I capture the brighter, higher ISO image, and if I wait a second or two, I capture the lower (usually -1 to -1.5 stops) ISO image. Oddly, this is not entirely predictable behavior as I can meter a scene four times and keep the higher ISO result, then the next will be the lower ISO result and then every other for a few then all lower ISO for a fewer. Very erratic behavior. Lastly, this only happens in multi-field or highlight-weighted modes, not in center weighted mode.
brick33308 wrote:
I have a friend who's having this issue he describes only with his M11M and not his M11P or Q3. I often see different exposures in my images taken a second apart, and just assume that a minute change in position of the camera results in a different way that light hits the meter. Thoughts? Is this a hardware defect?
when pressing the shutter button the LV (or with EVF) will display one metered preview (I have it set to display metering result when pressing the shutter) and within a split second it will display a lower/darker exposure. This us usually a change in ISO. If I snap it right away I capture the brighter, higher ISO image, and if I wait a second or two, I capture the lower (usually -1 to -1.5 stops) ISO image. Oddly, this is not entirely predictable behavior as I can meter a scene four times and keep the higher ISO result, then the next will be the lower ISO result and then every other for a few then all lower ISO for a fewer. Very erratic behavior. Lastly, this only happens in multi-field or highlight-weighted modes, not in center weighted mode. ...Show more →
I sometimes see my SL3 choose a slightly different actual exposure from what I see in the live view readout to what I see after half-pressing the shutter button. I don't think this is just a Leica thing, either, but the Leica M11 does try to meter so frequently that when handholding, extremely small movements of the camera result in changes to the exposure reading.
The M11M difference, though – could be they have their film style set to high contrast, which could cause more erratic metering.
