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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] incident metering
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:51:21 -0500

Frank Dernie wrote:
>
> There is one special case where the benefit of incident metering is
> obviously inappropriate. This is landscape photography. 
>

The spot you're standing in and the spot your shooting are lit by the same
light source.  The sun.  You can use an incident lightmeter for landscape
photography.  It requires some thought, but then so does using reflective
meter.

Now, reflective meters may be a *better* choice for landscape photography,
for a number of reasons, but that is not the same as "incident meterings is
obviously inappropriate".

M.

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