Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jerry I don't think so. A reflective light meter averages everything to approx 18% grey doesn't it? :-) An incident meter measures the light falling on an object and the object itself 'controls' how much of that light is reflected back to the photographer. Black objects reflect, well, not a lot so they appear dark; white objects reflect more so they appear lighter. Of course I could be totally wrong (not for the first _or_ last time ;-) Steve - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Jerry Lehrer Sent: 17 April 2003 18:41 To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] metereless Steve I have a feeling that you are confusing an incident light meter with a reflected light meter. Jerry Steve Unsworth wrote: > Don't think so, you're measuring the light that's falling onto an > object, not the light reflected from it. A black object will appear > black because it absorbs more of the light that's falling onto it than > a white object. > > Steve - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html