Re: [Leica] Incident vs. Reflective Metering

["animal" <s.jessurun95@chello.nl>]

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From: "Henning Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 5:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Incident vs. Reflective Metering


> >Just read with interest the comments on relfective versus incident 
> >light reading/metering. Having been a long time believer in hand 
> >held meters I just would like to throw my experiences into the pot.
> >For starters, if you have never tried or are skeptical of the value 
> >of incident  vs reflective, try this. Beg or borrow a decent 
> >*calibrated* hand held meter. Arm your self with your camera with 
> >its built-in reflective meter. Go out and photograph a number of 
> >different color and substance items; dark wood, shiny metal, you get 
> >the idea. Expose two shots, one with the in camera meter and then 
> >the incident meter, pointed toward the camera in the same spot as 
> >the subject. Now the beauty of incident metering is you don't have 
> >to be in the exact same spot. Just a location that has the same 
> >amount of light falling on the location as the subject. Experiment 
> >number 2; take a reading from both the subject's location and a 
> >separate location. This would be done assuming you could not get 
> >close to the intended subject. Compare the readings. They will be 
> >the same. To address the issue of the black cat and the white on 
> >white dress or the sands at White Sands National Monument. An 
> >incident meter reading will give an accurate exposure, leaving the 
> >cat black and the dress white and White Sands (not really sand) a 
> >rendition of what you saw. Would you bracket? Maybe. Remember the 
> >basic rule of all built-in reflective meters, they're calibrated to 
> >18% greyscale, like a greyscale card. Black will be grey, snow will 
> >be grey, a white dress will be grey. The main thing is experiment 
> >and see for yourself the difference in reading variations, shooting 
> >the same subject. I have 3 hand helds, and use them no matter what 
> >system I'm shooting that day; EOS, 3s, EOS 1N RS, Nikon FE, Leica 
> >M6s TTL or my Pentax 67s even though they have TTL prisms (for macro 
> >work)and my Yashica Mat 124 when I want to shoot square. If you 
> >don't have a hand held, at least get a small grey card to carry and 
> >meter off of that in difficult situations.
> >I shoot almost exclusively chromes and they leave little room for 
> >metering error.    Dave
> 
> Not exactly handheld, but the Sinarsix system does the metering 
> right; handheld meters are just 'waving your hand at the scenery'. 
> Spot metering with the spot always in the right place. Helps you when 
> each shot costs $12+.
> 
> Action shots are optional.
> 
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Whats that metering by probe at the film ?
simon

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