For prints, scanning, or with a digital camera, you want to capture all the
info you can see on the film. Then you can make the image as dark or light as
you want. So spot metering works best. There may be some considerations with
grain, blocking, and contrast that will affect exposure choices.
For slides, you have to consider how the slide will look. Using an incident
meter will help you reproduce what you saw.
tOM
On Thursday, May 15, 2003 at 23:34
Matt BenDaniel <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There is another way to look at it. Images are data. If the most important
> features (as perceived by the photographer) are clipped in the shadows, then
> the
> viewer will never see much detail in those features. It is the photographer's
> choice to identify what should be midtone. That's part of the zone approach.
...
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