When I was shooting a lot of medium format, I carried a Vivitar meter that combined incident, flash and averaging along with a Pentax Spotmeter 5. I had to shoot transparency film for some clients, so I had to be able to come within a half f-stop of perfect, even with bracketing. Paul On Oct 10, 2006, at 9:00 PM, Bob W wrote:
>> Incident meters wont do you any good if the distant >> Landscape is under different light local to the camera. > > That's true, and it's why a combined meter (or 2 meters) is useful, > but it's very rare to be shooting a landscape and not be able to find > somewhere nearby where you can take a reading. > > -- > Cheers, > Bob > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of J. C. O'Connell >> Sent: 11 October 2006 01:35 >> To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' >> Subject: RE: hand held meters >> >> Incident meters wont do you any good if the distant >> Landscape is under different light local to the camera. >> That's why the need for the spotmeters. But once again. >> If youre shooting color or BW negative films, exact exposure >> Isnt really that critical especially if you give it a +1 >> Stop exposure compensate ( set ISO film speed on meter to half >> The film's rating ). >> JCO > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
