Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. - -- Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.neteze.com/ewelch Cynicism often masquerades for sophistication in our society, but more often than not it's merely an indicator of resentment.