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Re: [OM] Be careful where you sit...

Subject: Re: [OM] Be careful where you sit...
From: "Ian Nichols" <ian.a.nichols@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 11:35:22 +0000
2009/1/4 Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Are you sure?  I'm not.  Try measuring a light in your house with your
> light meter.  First from 1 meter, then from 1.4 meters, then from 2
> meters.  Bet you find a 1 stop drop in each measurement.

Yes, but that's changing the light-subject distance, not the
subject-camera distance.   Put a piece of paper 1 meter away from a
lamp shining onto it and take spot readings from the paper at  1, 1.4
and 2 meters.  They should be the same, no?  You'd use the same
aperture to photograph that piece of paper from each of those
distances with a manual flash, wouldn't you?

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