It's a hard lesson to learn. I used only an old minolta autometer when I was
shooting film, and it never failed me, although it had an appetite for
batteries. There is no easier, more accurate way to meter, I never used the
spot meter on my OM4.
Bill pearce
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From: "John Hudson" <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Incident Light metering
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> From: "Dawid Loubser" <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 5:37 AM
> Subject: [OM] Incident Light metering
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>> An incident light meter simply cannot be equalled by any other in-
>> camera reflected-light
>
> ****SHIT !!!
>
>
> jh
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>
>> 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
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>> 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
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>>
>> 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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