Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica R8 vs Nikon F5 light metering
From: "Don J. Rorschach" <75051.2525@compuserve.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 03:21:34 -0400

If an incident light meter is accurate enough to secure close to 100%
correct exposure for short latitude film such as Kodachome that must have
dead on exposure, why wouldn't the incident light meter be accurate enough
for black & white film that has much greater latitude?  Mike Tatum of
Plymouth Products fame, advised me to use a Sekonic incident meter in 1968,
and I found it to provide much more accuracy than trying to measure
everything in the scene using a reflectance meter and then averaging. 
(Mike used the Leica system.)

I still like to use the old Sekonic and check the R-8 reading.