Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/30

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Subject: [Leica] Exposure for Photographing people who have darkskin.
From: mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura)
Date: Thu Dec 30 21:27:16 2004
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At 11:30 PM -0500 04.12.30, Dan C wrote:
>Palms are more universal in reflectance.   Mine is almost exactly 1 stop
>over 18% gray card (meaning open up one stop from reading).   But if the
>skin colour is very dark, I'd feel better taking a reading directly off the
>skin, and then close down 1 1/2 to 2 stops.

Cough... cough..... Do you know what an incident meter is?  I'm not 
sure why you're talking about reflectance here.  cough cough.... 
ehem...

Karen



>  >
>>Why not just use an incident meter? Much easier:
>>      http://photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/lightmeters.html
>>
>
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Replies: Reply from bladman99 at yahoo.ca (Dan C) ([Leica] Exposure for Photographing people who have darkskin.)
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