Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] exposure rules
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 22:35:18 -0600

> But I believe Fred Ward (Nat. Geo.) wrote a brief
>note (in the archive?) that said in effect that any serious photographer
>interested in consistent, dead-on results will rely only on an incident
>meter.

I have the highest respect for Fred. But I disagree with this belief. For
most situations, this is true, but I shoot in really bad light quite often,
and there is no way an incident meter is going to work for me. I can't stop
and hold up the meter in a situation where things are happening and there
is not time, and it's highly unethical to shout "stop" wait 'til I get a
reading!

It just depends on how much you need "help" in metering, or how fast you work.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

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