Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So Bob Shell is saying that "all" incident meters are wrong... Mine sure as hell isn't and it agrees perfectly with a reflected reading of all of my 18% grey cards. There would sure be a hellova lot of industrial/commercial/fashion/fine art photographers that have been using their incident meter for decades, without knowing that their meter is/was wrong. It's amazing that they take such great photographs. And the schools don't even know this. WOW!!! Maybe Bob got a bad batch of grey m..... cards. Jim At 02:05 PM 4/7/99 -0700, you wrote: >>From the Rollei List Bob Shell has authoritatively and convincingly >turned my head around. >He says middle grey is 13% and the middle grey card is 18% so you have >to open a half stop when you use it. >I quote myself: >I find it quite humorous to find out this late in my photographic life >that the middle grey card is not middle grey. >"It's like finding out that middle grey isn't middle grey!" >What next? Is nothing sacred? >Did everybody know but me? >I you walked up to me in a bar and wanted to bet me whether the middle >grey card was really middle grey what would I have done? >I going to go bury my head in the sand! >Anything else you guys/gals want to tell me before my hair falls out. I >know about Santa. >Mark :-) Rabiner