In all this discussion of incident metering I guess I should probably
have pointed out that 90 of my incident metering is flash metering. If
it's not measuring the main light it's measuring the flash as fill in
daylight. But even so I still check the histogram. The 5D is very nice
in that respect since it gives you histograms for each color channel and
not simply total luminosity. The Minolta A1 can look pretty good in
total luminosity while at the same time blowing the highlights on the
red channel.
Chuck Norcutt
Winsor Crosby wrote:
> I used an incident meter a lot with my Leica M3 and its wide angle
> clip on CdS meter. It was wonderful for placing values in the slide
> film so that they looked like what I had seen. I used it less with
> the Canon F1 because its center metering mode got me closer than the
> meter on the Leica. The multi-spot metering of the OM4T just
> eliminated the need to carry the hand held meter, at least for me.
> The histogram on my DSLR even after the fact in combination with the
> ability to delete the bad exposure is just so much more accurate than
> any of the preceding methods. Even the matrix metering gives such a
> high percentage of good exposures, that the incident meter only comes
> out if I should want to use my remaining OM1n or one of the Mamiyas.
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