Different strokes for different folks I guess. I've never worried about
taking shots two seconds apart (or even six) that require totally
changing the exposure. If I'm shooting some event (which I don't do
anymore) exposure is flash and pretty much pre-set although I do vary it
somewhat based on my position relative to the lights. Studio work is
even more constant. If I'm outdoors I set the exposure according to the
prevailing light and don't change it until the light changes
significantly. My photography these days is pretty much slow and
deliberate and, these days, mostly of inanimate things. Finally,
outdoor fill flash in bright light with an OM is just painful. I
haven't had to drag out the ND filters for a long time. :-)
Well, not everything is inanimate. I just remembered that I took a lot
of shots of the grand kids this past weekend including a couple of
soccer games. I think I changed exposure 3 or 4 times throughout both
games (which were back to back). No hurry.
Chuck Norcutt
Ken Norton wrote:
>> But I would submit that histograms and chimping have totally obsoleted
>> multi-spot metering. I can take a test shot and adjust the camera for
>> perfect exposure with the histogram before you can ever get through
>> measuring your multiple spots.
>>
>
> Chimping is as "valid" of an exposure method as any other. However, we're
> again entering the realm of anticipatory vs. reactionary photography. In
> anticipation of a picture that is evolving before my eyes, I can multi-spot
> without taking my eyes from the viewfinder AND there are times where the
> pre-shot (for chimping purposes) disturbs the outcome. Multispot is silent,
> taking a picture isn't.
>
> Also, something that is specific to the high-order OM bodies, we have the
> hi-light/shadow buttons. I never used them till recently and I'm in hog
> heaven now. Take a common snowscape, all I have to do is take a single spot
> reading of the snow that I want bright, press the hi-light button and fire
> away. In the time it takes for the histogram to appear on the back of the
> DSLR, I've already completed the picture and am going on to the next one.
> Point, press one button, press a second button while recomposing, press the
> shutter-release, done. If I'm taking several shots, click the lever over to
> memorize the setting. (assuming auto-exposure). What takes me less than two
> seconds will take no less than six seconds when doing the
> shoot-chimp-adjust-shoot method. Please try it and see just how quickly the
> chimp method really is for you. I know my way around a DSLR as well as most
> here, and I can't do it under six seconds--and this is assuming that I can
> do it with just one chimp cycle.
>
> As to multiple multi-spot readings? Since I've learned the hi-light/shadow
> functionaly, I'm frequently doing just one spot-reading, but if I'm doing
> the full monty in manual-exposure mode, I'll do three: One highlight, one
> shadow, one midtone, and I adjust exposure to make sure all three dots line
> up within the exposure range of the film I'm using. A poor man's histogram,
> so to speak.
>
> Honestly, though, this comes down to working-method comfort. I find myself
> easily getting caught up in one style of metering or shooting. For a couple
> of years (three?) I was parking my brains and letting auto-exposure do it's
> thing and dialing in exposure compensation. My poor E-1 never saw the "M"
> position for 18 months, I think. But nowadays, I'm doing so well with "M"
> modes that the the "A" setting is getting lonesome. "P" gets used when I'm
> totally in brain-dead mode, and "S" is just plain silly. ;)
>
> I got the negs back from last night's shoot. I just held them up to the
> light to eyeball them and I'm in hog heaven. Every single flash and ambient
> exposure is exactly what I wanted. Yes, Joel, even slide film would have
> been dead-on.
>
> No chimping required.
>
> AG (got them hanging out in the breeze) Schnozz
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