On Tue, 29 May 2001, Patrick White wrote:
> I've used the same procedure. When the light meter in the K-1000 shut off
> for lack of light, I punted and used spot meter mode of my PZ-1p body as a
> light meter since it is more sensitive. Without it, I would have had to
> guess -- I probably would have picked the part of the scene I wanted to
> meter from and then moved close enough to get a reading off only it to use
> as a starting place.
> One thing I learned to be careful about with my K-1000 (and maybe others
> need to be as well?) is that down at the extreme end of the light meter
> range, the metering gets severely non-linear. When I'm close to that range,
> I always check the reading by making a one-stop change. If the needle
> deflects more than I expect a one-stop change to do, then I can't trust
> either reading.
>
> hope that helps,
> patbob ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hi!
Many thanks for suggestion. Yes, it helped me. I didn't know that the
lightmeter of K1000 also behaves nonlinearly under certain situation.
With kind regards,
Ayash Kanto.
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