Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/23

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Subject: Re: LUG[Leica] Incident light measurement
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 21:03:25 -0800

sometime around 12/23/99 9:58 AM, Henry Ambrose at digphoto@nashville.net
was heard  to write:

> The basic idea of exposure is that you have a visualization of the
> picture you want and then pick some part of it to be exposed a certain
> way.  The meter type is not relevant to the preceding sentence. (assuming
> that the meter is accurate and appropriate for the given scene)

And my point is you can't do that with an incident meter in any precise
manner. It's not bad or good, it's just different! At least not as precisely
as a reflective meter. In the hands of a practiced photographer, that is. A
spot meter in the hands of someone who doesn't know how to use it is worse
than not having one at all.

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Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA
http://www.neteze.com/ewelch

Cynicism often masquerades for sophistication in our society, but more often
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