Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] (Handy) Grey card
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 21:41:05 -0400

The palms of most people's hands are fairly similarly toned.  And they
don't tend to tan.   Mine happens to be almost exactly 1 stop brighter than
mid gray (to within 1/10 stop, as measured by my Minolta Spotmeter F).

Dan C.

At 06:01 PM 29-04-00 -0700, Roland Smith wrote:
>For years, I have read the back of my hand with a Weston meter and obtained
>good exposures.   Is the palm of the hand a better surface for this type of
>reading?   I didn't make any adjustment to the exposure the reading
>indicated.
>