Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:04:13 -0800 From: "jbflesher" <jbflesher@email.msn.com> Subject: [Leica] =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_=5BLeica=5D_Voigtl=E4nder_VC_Meter?= Message-ID: <009b01c0b252$df0e69a0$5a926fce@flesher.com> References: <3AB91839.68A34D67@uni.edu> Matt: An incident reading is almost identical to a reflected reading off of a gray card (zone V). But depending on your skin color, your palm can be from neutral (zone V) to a stop over (zone VI). Jack >>> I used this a lot with an SLR but with the M I find it a bit tricky, you have to guess at such close range where the spot is. At that point it becomes quicker to haul out the incident meter - preferably old-style without batteries. I find my newer flash meter (sekonic flashmaster 406 or some such I think) a real pain as it takes about three seconds to power up. It also has a very unintuitive display. The old studio master looks funkier and is always ready, although not so good for dim light. But I find the incident metering to be more useful in bright high contrast lighting anyway, in dim light the M6 does an excellent job. And since I converted to M6 I hardly use separate meters at all now. Still, nice that photography reduces us all to grey. Maybe everyone should be a photographer and ban discrimination on grounds of colour. I find there's about a half stop difference between my palm (+ .5 stop) and an Indian palm (+ 0 stop). Since I only use my palm, there's nothing to remember! Rob.