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 21:44:48 -0800

sometime around 12/23/99 8:02 PM, Henning J. Wulff at
henningw@archiphoto.com was heard  to write:

> If you point them at the
> inside of a dome which transmits 18% of light and calibrate them
> accordingly, they are incident; if you point them at a subject and
> calibrate them as if they are pointing at an 18% (or whatever percentage
> seems reasonable), they are reflective.

This is like saying water is wet. Of course it is. It's a non-issue. How a
meter works is not the point, when it comes to what it sees. How it gives
you control is. That Frank's post totally missed that. I read it just fine.

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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.