Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:23 AM 4/6/98 -0800, you wrote: >people using negatives. I have watched meter swings through 2 stops >differences depending on how much white sail or white hull in in the It's called manual metering. You take meter readings, and based on experience, you can determine the exposure. Leave it on manual, and voila! The exposure remains perfect. I've done it for years. And the fact that incident meters don't tell you about the reflectivity of a subject might help in average situations, it won't help the photographer who doesn't know when to vary from the exposure when the range of the light is wider than the range the film can handle, and then they have to bias it one way or the other. You I'm sure can do that. Speaking of built-in meters. Today I tested my R8's flash meter against a Minolta Flashmeter IV in the studio, shooting a still-life. Dead on. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch The young child is looking in the world to find himself - reflected in a mirror with a thousand faces. - -Maria Montessori