Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kevin, one of the coolest aspects of The Zone System is one which can also require some rethinking: You are *not* looking for a mid-grey surface from which to spot-meter, because, as you have learned, this is little better than guesswork. Rather, you are looking at your little Zone scale (if you have one, which I don't) and arbitrarily deciding that the field of grass shall be placed in say, Zone V. Once that crucial decision has been made, the only reason to meter other subjects is to determine where they fall in relation to that field of grass. Jeff - -----Original Message----- From: Khoffberg <khoffberg@email.msn.com> >The difficulty I've been having occurs when I shoot my Hasselblad where I >seem to constantly underexposing everything (yes I bracket all the time and >yes that chews up a lot of great big frames). Much of the problem comes >from my use of a spot meter (which I bought at least in part so I could >learn about proper exposure). I'm presently at the stage where I spend all >kinds of time metering this and that value in one degree snips (which I >believe is your point) <snip>