Ah ha, one of those, if the words, match then the techniques should match ideas. Sorry, that is bull.
A proper incident reading will give the most consistent exposure frame to frame of any metering technique no matter whether you are using slide film, or negative film, or digital, or how the end result is used (though for different end uses you might want to tweak the exposure index slightly). Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clive evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 5:30 AM Subject: Incident/Reflected light metering > Ok , what I was taught doing my city and guilds commercial photography in > 1969 was that the goal is to meter for the end > result..........................therfore if the finished product is a print > [viewed by reflected light ] then to calcualte exposure using areflected > light method [grey card, zone system etc. all are based on the perceived > apperance of a mid-tone in a print..............] > If of course the end product is viewed by transmitted light [a > transparency] then the perceived apprance of the most important higlight > is the goal and therfore a maesurement using transmitted [incident] light > id the key, as in this case the meter is measuring the light transmitted > THROUGH the incident dome/invercone etc.] > Makes sense I think!! > > Clive > Antibes > France >
