Re: [Leica] Banff & incident meter

["Julian Thomas" <julianthomas@terra.es>]

My PAW week7  ( http://www.zing.com/album/?id=4293130051 )was using just an
incident meter - and the light was complicated. The print is a straight
scan - no tweaking. For me an incident meter is the simplest approach. I'm
not clever enough to use a built-in meter ;-)

Julian
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@home.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Banff & incident meter


> Frank Dernie wrote:
>
> >>>>> Just use an incident meter. Always best when the light conditions
are
> likely to fool the assumptions inherent in using any reflective meter.<<<<
>
> Hi Frank,
>
> So true!
>
> The first camera to make me believe an in-camera meter was accurate was
the
> M5, prior to that I never shot anything without an incident meter and
rarely
> ever had bad exposures under the wildest light conditions. Simple
operation,
> read the light falling on the subject and away you go... click, click wham
> bam thank you ma'am!
>
> Yep today I use M6 and R8 cameras and they are on the mark 99.9999999% of
> the time. However! Sometimes the old incident light meter twitch comes to
> play and out it comes..sort of a huggie bear blanket left over from being
a
> kid. :-) Or maybe a soother, well the single malt takes the place of the
> soother today. ;-)
>
> But an incident meter is a truly good thing to have in ones bag anytime,
> even if you only use it once a year, but that once may be the best time!
As
> that one time may save your butt!
>
> I realize these days there will be umpteen dozen rebuttals claiming it
isn't
> that simple as there are many variables etc etc etc etc etc..
>
> Damn I must be getting paranoid at posting ! Like I don't care what anyone
> says when I put years of experience against the book learners any day! ;-)
> Keep it simple stupid, as rarely,  note guys "rarely,"  do you have to be
> concerned with an incident reading being completely off target!
> ted
>
> Ted Grant Photography Limited
> www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 12:02 AM
> Subject: [Leica] Banff
>
>
> > cheers Frank
> >
> > ----------
> >
> > >
> >
> > > It is a possibility, although I do not want to drag one around.
Instead,
> I use
> > > my hand and open up one stop if there is nothing suitable to meter on.
> But
> > > usually there is the road surface, or a tree or something else that
can
> act as
> > a
> > > grey card.
>