Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] incident metering
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 08:31:02 -0800

Frank Dernie wrote:
><Snip> 
> There is one special case where the benefit of incident metering is
> obviously inappropriate. This is landscape photography. It is frequently
> the case that the incident light at the camera position is different than
> that playing on the distant subject. In the absence of a helicopter to pop
> over and do a measurement on a distant mountain side, reflected metering is
> the only choice.><Snip> 
> Cheers Frank

I think Gitzo makes a collapsible carbon fiber pole vault for those inconvenient
grand Canyon incident readings!
I hear they are coming out with a matching pogo stick!
For when even a real long collapsible pole vault becomes unwieldy!
Mark Rabiner
Full moon in 63 minutes!!
Too late to get there and get a reading!?