On Sunday, January 27, 2002 at 9:22, Sue Pearce <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "[OM] Pingpong balls" saying:
> > You could also cut a ping pong ball in half, glue it to a filter
> > ring, and put random black dots with a pen on the inside until the
> > reading matches the reading from a gray card. Fits better in a
> > gadget bag.
> > --
> > Winsor Crosby
> > Long Beach, California
>
> Winsor,
> that is weird, if anything... ;-)
>
> Someone used to make a hemisphere on a filter ring, to make a TTL camera
> into an incident meter. Don't know how well it worked, but an incident meter
> is still the best for 900f most people's photography. Bill Pearce
That is still available, I saw it last year.
But I think spot metering handles all my negative work very well.
Maybe for transparencies, incident meters are better.
tOM
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