Re: [Leica] metereless

[Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>]

Steve

If you start willy nilly compensating for light or dark subjects,
you start to lose control.

Read about the Zone System, understand it, and use a spot meter.

Jerry

Steve Unsworth wrote:

> Jerry
>
> I don't think so. A reflective light meter averages everything to approx 18%
> grey doesn't it? :-)
>
> An incident meter measures the light falling on an object and the object
> itself 'controls' how much of that light is reflected back to the
> photographer. Black objects reflect, well, not a lot so they appear dark;
> white objects reflect more so they appear lighter.
>
> Of course I could be totally wrong (not for the first _or_ last time ;-)
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Jerry Lehrer
> Sent: 17 April 2003 18:41
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] metereless
>
> Steve
>
> I have a feeling that you are confusing an incident light meter with a
> reflected light meter.
>
> Jerry
>
> Steve Unsworth wrote:
>
> > Don't think so, you're measuring the light that's falling onto an
> > object, not the light reflected from it. A black object will appear
> > black because it absorbs more of the light that's falling onto it than
> > a white object.
> >
> > Steve
>
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