CH:
You hit the nail on the head saying that experience is needed in using spot
meter, more so mulitspot. I have just owned an OM4t for three months and I
am still feeling my way to know what exactly to meter in a picture. I have
ended up many times with underexposed pictures! Then now I realize I am
faster to just bracket +1 in sunlit high contrast scenes when I am in a
hurry. I used to do better with my OM2Sp where I would just move the camera
around the highlight and shadow and then mentally choose where between the
extreme values I would lock in the manual exposure. I can also do that with
the OM 4t of course.
now it leaves mewondering if the OM2Sp was really good enough
anyway.....well one thing, the OM4T just feels more solid, and still has
parts for repair.
----- Original Message -----
From: "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Re: meters
> I second that, spot or reflective metering need experience in selecting
the
> area/object to meter. Incident meter is faster and accurate in most
cases.
> Flash measurement capability was very important to me, when I got my first
> light meter in 1990 for my Bronica SQA I choose the Sekonic 328 which has
> flash capability. You need the flash meter since most flash output is not
> very accurate quote and controlled. I have not use the light meter for a
> long time since the SQA was sold, now I only use it with my Pen cameras. I
> also don't need it for flash measurement as I use DC for most of my flash
> work.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jan Steinman" <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > No! That's the beauty of it. If you are shooting a black cat on a black
> couch, you're simply guessing with a scene or spot meter. But an incident
> meter measures the light falling ON the subject, and thus gives you an
> exposure equivalent to a "gray card" meter reading.
> >
> > How about a white dove on a white counter top? Same thing -- the
incident
> light can be measured accurately, but a scene or spot meter is just a
guess.
> >
> > (Of course, the cat or dove might not tolerate having a meter shoved in
> its face... I'm not saying incident metering is always practical, just
that
> it is the most accurate, if your situation allows it. The things I shoot
> every day don't move much on their own... :-)
> >
>
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