Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Although I have always used reflective meters, either in camera or not, I am contemplating the purchase of an incident type, especially for use with slide films. Someone with experience correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that if you set your exposure "for the light", you will get a group of slides of more uniform density, than if you did reflective metering and used your judgment when compensation was needed. With negative film, the discrepancies between the two systems can be compensated in printing, but with slides, it seems the more consistent densities would be an enhancement to slide shows. Hence, I think I'll spring for one of the Digisix-like small meters that can do incident measurements. Do my assumptions about more constant slide density with incidents work out that way in practice? Julian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Dykstra" <rdcb37@dodo.com.au> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 1:06 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] BESSA R3A or M7 Luis Ripoll wrote: > I own a MP and M6, personally I'm not enthusiastic with the Automatic > priority of the M7, ... Me neither. Though, I've never tried it. :-) We had a big yack about the value of incident meters being the ants pants a second ago, in relation photographing differing skin colours. Various folks pointed to the advantages of assessing the light by some method that is independent of the actual subject being shot. So where is the advantage of an M7, with aperture priority automatic mode, and highly reactive to the subject? I'd prefer to set my meter for light that I just know, or, meter off a mid tone somewhere and then shoot till I need to re-assess. An M7 on auto would not work this way. Nor would I stay as mindful of what the light is up to. But then I see that many love the M7. Perhaps I should try one. :-) Rick. _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information