Well - experience and luck play a significant role here - a few years back I took some photos in a ballet (where photography was strictly forbidden), from a way back row, with my smuggled Rollei 35 S, which has a pretty haphazard metering - and to my surprise the pictures were good - no close-ups, though. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Pål Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Päivä: 27. maaliskuuta 2001 0:15 Aihe: Re: Spot metering (WAS: Camera Recommendations) >Jerry wrote: > > >> Gee, how did anyone ever use slide film or do concerts/available light >> before spot meters came along???? Could there be another way???? > >They did but nowhere near the control over exposure you can get with a spot meter. >With a spot meter you can assign any part of the scene to any tonality you want by an >accuracy less than 1/3 of a stop (with modern cameras). Similar can be achieved with >center weighted metering but than means getting (very) close to the subject for meter >reading or changing to a long telephoto lens for metering; neither very practical. Of >course, all this require that photographer knows what he's doing. > >Pål > - 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 .
