Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/13

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Subject: [Leica] Be's Soccer Game
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:15:55 -0600
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essentially using it like an incident (as aposed to reflected) light  
meter
"held at the subject
pointing to where the camera will be"

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
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On Mar 13, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Bob Adler wrote:

> I always had trouble with this device. By "point at the primary  
> light source", does that mean you point it at the sun on a bright  
> day? At dusk, do you point it at the lightest part of the sky?  
> Inside with multiple sources (tungsten, window, flourescent) what  
> do you point it at?
> Thanks for any info you can provide. Mines been sitting on the  
> shelf since the day after I bought it...
> Bob
>  Bob Adler
> Palo Alto, CA
> http://www.rgaphoto.com
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Sat, March 13, 2010 8:45:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Be's Soccer Game
>
> 2010-03-13-10:47:29 Ric Carter:
>> so, if  i shoot a graycard, and set balance accordingly manually, it
>> will give me a metadata tag that will make the LR import consistent?
>
> Yep.  A particularly handy thing to use for this is an ExpoDisc:
>
> http://www.expoimaging.com/product-overview.php? 
> cat_id=1&keywords=ExpoDisc
>
> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/358082-REG/ 
> ExpoImaging_EXPOD77W_ExpoDisc_77mm_Digital_White.html
>
> Just slap it in front of your lens, point at the primary light source,
> and grab your white-balance frame.
>
> The "ExpoDisc Portrait" is what I ended up preferring, pretty much
> universally.  It's ever-so-slightly on the cool side of neutral, which
> causes the camera to compensate to ever-so-slightly warm.
>
> Oh, and while they have lots of sizes (presumably to fit particular
> lenses), I've found that just one big one (77mm is enough bigger than
> glass I regularly use) to hold in front of any lens, shade and all, is
> what works for me.
>
> -Jeff
>
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