On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Jens Bladt wrote: > It's not that the hand held meter is better. It isn't. It's just that > incident metering is indifferent to the properties of the subject - because > only the light that's hitting the subject, is measured. Not the reflected > light.
Thanks for the tutorial; I knew about the grey 18% but not what the incident meter does. I was shooting a farm on a hill about 70m away yesterday at sunset (sun in the frame). An incident meter would not work as my feet could not make it over the fence and my hand is only about a meter long, so I spot-metered on the farm (and interpreted sunny-16 as I thought best for the occasion, just to check that I agreed). Looking forward to the results (though I was shooting forgiving colour negative). Kostas
