>From: Tris Schuler <tristanjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Actually, _all_ meter readings need to be interpreted, no matter where you
>stand and what light you measure. Neither approach (incident or spot) is
>full-proof or necessarily "better" then the other...
I have to mildly disagree here. I would say that the most accurate exposure is
always with incident metering.
It may well be that incident metering is inconvenient, or that you are trying
to do something that values creativity over accuracy, but scene metering can
only approach (not surpass) the accuracy of incident metering.
Again, this is not to say that you cannot do good work with scene or spot
metering, particularly if dead-on accuracy is not an absolute requirement. (Who
cares if it's 1/3rd stop off if everything else is wonderful? :-) But I would
not consider anything except incident metering for technical or reproduction
photography, for example.
So that's my bias, since I do reproductions, and have been seriously screwed by
using scene/spot metering.
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