The reason I like spot metering over incident metering is simple - I can't walk on water.
Seriously - my subject is floating in the middle of a pond, bracketed by transient reflections and highlights and maybe backlighting that can fool a center-weight meter or a matrix meter. I sure can't walk out there and use the incident meter at the subject location, so I just point the spotmeter at the subject (or an object in the same light as the subject) and compensate as needed. Of course, if I am standing in the same light as the subject, I could just incident meter from where I'm standing. But I usually forget to bring along the incident meter, because it's one extra thingie to keep track of, and the spot meter is built into my camera, so the spot meter is much more likely to get used. -- John Mustarde www.photolin.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
