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[OM] Re: Advanced light metering

Subject: [OM] Re: Advanced light metering
From: "iwert" <iwert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:04:41 +0200
> Jez wrote:
>
> >Well the spot meter just measures the little area it sees - it's the
person
> >behind that has to point it and interpret what result (s)he's given.
Point
> >it at 18% grey and you get the right answer.  Point it at a bride in a
coal
> >cellar or a black cat in the snow and you will be disappointed.  (Unless
of
> >course you have an OM3/4 - then you press Shadow or Hilight and you get
the
> >RIGHT answer!)
> >
> >Well, nearly right anyway.
>
> So how do you know that you've over- or under-exposed (which, not knowing
the cameras well, is, I assume, all "Shadow" or "Hilight" does) enough?
Without reverting to an incident light meter, that is? (Or waiting till you
get the piccies back!)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Simon:

In one word: experience... (or in two words: experience and intuition)

Iwert.


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