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Re: [OM] Exposure memory and center weighted metering was: Olymp

Subject: Re: [OM] Exposure memory and center weighted metering was: Olymp
From: "Giles" <cnocbui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 21:16:47 +0000
Comrades, what are you getting so upset about.  This person is on the Pen*ax 
list, 
you don't expect such a person to know anything do you ?  To these counter 
revolutionaries, working out a simple average is 'arcane' - need I say more.

;-)

Giles


P2CON@xxxxxxx wrote:

> it falls into and set the exposure accordingly. I remember seeing an add for
> the Olympus OM-4. They were bragging about its ability to take 8 spot
> readings and then average it into the "correct" exposure. Only an
> advertising executive could have come up with that! Lets take 8 readings
> that are inaccurate, then average them together using some arcane algorithm,
> scene and read a grey card, you don't need the spot meter anyway. Far better
> to use the center weighted meter that at least has a hope of giving the
> correct exposure by the colour value averaging method (red barn + blue sky +
> green field = colour neutral exposure).
> 

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