Is it necessary to buy a spotmeter with a sighting scope? These are
extremely expensive, but without one I do not see how you can accurately
point it at a spot you want to meter. Without being able to accurately
line up, you could only do general or incident readings surely? This is
why I think you may be better off using the TTL spotmeter which you can
aim accurately rather than a handheld which you hope you pointed in the
right direction.
I ask this because my MZ30 does not have spotmeter and I would go and
buy a cheap lightmeter if it could be aimed accurately. Otherwise I
have to think long and har whether to spend the extra dosh on one with a
scope - it would be cheaper to take a second body to use as a lightmeter
(although obviously I would lose the incident metering)!!
I am currently waiting to see whether to buy MZ-S (favourite at the
moment), Z1P or MZ5N but in the meantime would like a spotmeter - just
not sure which one and whether its worth the money. I dont want to
spend hundreds, but I dont really want one which is not as good as that
which I will get in my upgraded camera when that happens.
Yours confused
Rob Brigham
> Bill Robb of this list impressed upon me the value of a spot meter,
> and his comments motivated me to get one. I bought a Pentax
> Spotmeter V and took it everywhere. I pointed it at trees, at
> shadows, at faces, at the sky ... I measured everything and was
> surprised at the results. For weeks I never took a picture, I just
> used the Pentax meter, and since i already had an understanding of
> the Zone System, what I was learning from the meter made sense.
> Soon after that I got a completely manual, meterless camera, and it
> took a few months of shooting almost every day to become completely
> comfortable with it and the spot meter.
>
> I am an amatuer photographer and I don't have capital to go for a spot
> meter though it is very helpful to have one. Do you think that it
would be
> impossible for me learn about exposure without a spotmeter? I will
always
> try to get one spotmeter, but what about if I fail in doing so?
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