Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 21:04:32 +1000 From: ROB HEYMAN <rheyman@cynergy.com.au> About twenty years ago I was teaching at a NSW University and I realised that, surprise, surprise, my students didn't want to buy their own incident meter. It was then that I found that if you place one of those styrene coffee cups over your SLR lens, set the exposure to the reciprocal of the ASA at f16 and pointed the camera at the sun your got the same reading. Does it work in shadows? You bet your R8 ir does!!! Any minor adjustments can be made by either sanding down the styrene slightly OR marking it with a black felt pen till the exposure reads correctly. Rob, you win the Best-Kludge-of-the-Week prize. Just one question -- is this what Aussies call "bush knowledge"?