Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- -----Original Message----- From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Saturday, September 04, 1999 11:12 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Whether to buy a seperate meter? >At 09:33 PM 9/3/99 -0700, you wrote: >>The hull >>was bright white and the water near the pier looked almost black, so what do >>you meter on? The haze added a little more uncertainty to trying to estimate >>the exposure. So I took an incident reading next to the boat with the Luna >>Pro pointed half way between the sun and where I would stand with the >>camera. > >Gary, > >In those kinds of situations, I meter the bright white and make the >exposure 2 - 2 1/2 stops overexposed for that white. An incident meter will >know nothing about how white the boat is, and how dark the water is, and >could very well put you right in the middle where neither is exposed >properly. When shooting slide film, the white boat has to be kept at 2 1/2 >stops over or less, or it's a blown out mass of nothing. If the water is >too dark, well, that's not as bad as blowing out the white. Experienced >photographers can handle any situation with a reflected meter. > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO Dear Gary and Eric, What I would do, is to take a spot reading of that brilliant white hull and press the little "Hi - Light" button on the top of my OM-4Ti , then release the shutter......that should do it ! oops...!!! this is not the Olympus mailing list !!!!! Rgds TMLee