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Frantisek wrote:
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
