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 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. - -- 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.