>> Still metering with my L398, it's a trusty tool. When? Whenever situation
>> calls for incident metering :)
KW> Hah! How about my trusty L-28c2? NO batteries! <g>
KW> I use it when my subject is in drastically different light than my camera's
KW> in. If I can.
KW> Such as when I'm standing in full sunlight, and my subject is under a tree
KW> being shaded.
KW> Get out my Sekonic and put the hood on the lens...
The L-398 works without batteries too :)
I do like it a lot. I do not use it much with the digital, though.
For film though, incident metering is a charm, mostly. Especially if
you learn it, and do not use the idiotkugeln, but just the plain
luxmeter flat panel. Last time with film, I also used a Spotmeter for
some theater stuff, which worked very fine. If only it was actually
smaller than my film camera! (the Pentax Spotmeter V, about the best
analog spotmeter there is, is indeed very very large). Incident
(especially lux) metering will teach anybody a lot about light and
contrast. Even with digital.
Good light!
fra
