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RE: [OM] urban legends #2435 & #3528

Subject: RE: [OM] urban legends #2435 & #3528
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 11:42:01 -0700
Are you sure about that? That would be true with a hand held meter perhaps. But since the manual meter of the camera measures light coming through the lens it should not matter whether the lens is shifted or not to get an accurate setting.

Winsor

Not true.  When manually metering, the exposure will be off if the lens
is shifted, however an AUTO/OTF exposure will be correct.  Refer to the
shift lens manuals.

<snip>

Someone recently remarked that you won't get an accurate exposure
reading when a shift lens is off-center.

Hel-lo?

Unless the lens has severe edge fall-off (which shift lenses are
designed _not_ to have), there is no difference in metering with the
lens centered or moved all the way over. What matters is _what_ you
meter, not the part of the field it's in.


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