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Subject: [OM] Incident Light metering
From: Dawid Loubser <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 10:37:11 +0200
An incident light meter simply cannot be equalled by any other in- 
camera reflected-light
metering solution, no matter what it does. This is in terms of  
"accuracy". However, modern
multi-segment light meters with powerful CPUs and a database of  
reference images, like
that found in the Nikon F6, are probably best at maximising the  
captured dynamic range,
especially on slide film.

I never shoot slide film without incident light metering (of course, I  
never shoot slide
film in anything but non-metered medium format cameras, but you get  
the point). Even when
you go to extremely low light levels, such as this shot I made (18  
minute exposure at f/32,
very high contrast captured on a poor-latitude slide film) no in- 
camera meter could ever
accurately meter it with the same confidence, you'd always have to  
fiddle around with
multi-spot this, exposure-compensation-that, etc.

http://snipurl.com/w5ux5

I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm just saying that an incident  
meter meters it *exactly*
for how it should be exposed, no additional brain-power required.

Dawid


On 12 May 2010, at 4:38 AM, Joel Wilcox wrote:

> It's a hard subject to meter.  An incident light meter would be nice.
> But if I have an OM-4 in my hands I always think "I don't need no
> stinking incident light meter."

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