Re: Understanding exposure? Recommendations?

[Herb Chong]

a digital camera is better than both. i have used my P&S digital camera for 
a light meter on occasion when i shot a particularly tricky lighting 
situation using slide film. take the picture and look at the histogram and 
the preview image to see where the shadows and highlights end up. since both 
had about the same dynamic range, it worked.

Herb....
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Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: Understanding exposure? Recommendations?


For folks who do not do their own processing a spot meter is overkill. All 
you can do in that case is move your exposure up and down the scale to 
select for shadow or highlight detail. In which case an incident meter and 
a little intelligence works much better than a spotmeter. A little more 
experience and you can use a incident meter almost as well as a spot meter 
for zone system work. For actually controlling lighting (as in a studio) 
an incident meter is hands down better. However I will admit that a 
spotmeter is far more gadgety and that seems to be what 90% of todays 
photographers want.