Larry Colen wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 03:30:57PM -0800, Nick David Wright wrote:
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# I think that I'd like to purchase a hand-held meter sometime in the near future. But I'm not really sure which one I'd like to go with. Just looking to meter ambient light. I'd like something small and simple. What do you all recommend?
I recommend waiting until you get your K10. In the length of time that
it takes to use a hand held light meter, you can fire a test shot,
look at the histogram and make corrections accordingly.
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I never learned to use histograms to judge exposure - is it not
dependent on the reflectivity of the scene? I just rely on my meter.
I frequently use a hand-held meter when using my *ist D. It is true
that quite often the difference in exposure from the camera's meter is
but a stop, but I believe in getting it right from the start. I guess
it comes from my film-shooting days when I always exposed as if I were
shooting slide film. And nowadays I don't really want to spend time
'tweaking' my shots.
As some of you may have noted, a lot of my recent PESOs have been shot
along the water. I use incident metering since sand and water
reflectivity can fool a camera quite readily.
I have used a Sekonic Studio Deluxe L-398 [no battery, heavy, small],
Sekonic L-358 [flash meter too], Minolta Flashmeter III. All three have
been mentioned in this thread.
#
# Thanks.
#
# ~Nick David Wright
# http://pedalingprose.wordpress.com/
César
Panama City, Florida
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