Just for the record, any hand-held meter would be used with my film camera.
In my experience most digital sensors do not rate at the same ISO as film does. My Canon's were generally about a stop hotter than the equivalent film. ~Nick David Wright http://pedalingprose.wordpress.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:08:18 AM > Subject: Re: light meters > > For all but the most difficult subjects, you can use the spotmeter on a > Pentax > digital to determine zone exposure, although that's necessary only on rare > occasions. > > I have a Vivitar 230XL meter that does incident and flash metering in > addition > to other modes. I never use it when shooting digital with ambient light or > on-camera flash. The camera meters and histogram are fine for that. I do use > the > incident flash meter in the studio to calculate lighting ratios from multiple > sources. > > When shooting digital, I shoot only RAW and go for the good histogram. It > doesn't get any better than that no matter how many meters one might use. > Paul > On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:26 PM, Nick David Wright wrote: > > > > > Chimping is looking at the picture you just shot on the back of your > > camera. I > am intimately acquainted with the process, I assure you I have missed many > pictures because of it. I don't think it matters if you're "exposing to the > right" or just saying "ooo pretty." ;;) > > > > The 18% reflectance thing is why folks invented the zone system. And the > system works just fine with digital too if you have a meter that is reliable > and > you take the time to learn it. Then you can instantly choose the exposure you > want without taking your eye from the finder. > > > > But then we are talking about hand-held meters here which definitely > > require a > look away from the finder. ;) > > > > ~Nick David Wright > > http://pedalingprose.wordpress.com/ > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > >> From: Bob W > >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:18:06 PM > >> Subject: RE: light meters > >> > >> Shooting digitally (more accurately, shooting raw) changes the way you > >> meter. > >> > >> Whenever you use a reflected meter you have to deal with the fact that not > >> all scenes are 18% reflective. One of the benefits of an incident meter is > >> that you don't have to worry about that. All you have to worry about is > >> metering the same light that's falling on your subject. > >> > >> However, because of the 'expose to the right' principle that applies when > >> you shoot raw, the incident reading may not always give you the best > >> settings for obtaining maximum detail in the raw fail. I find that using an > >> incident meter tends to leave one or 2 stops of additional exposure > >> available. So it is still worthwhile checking the histogram and adjusting > >> if > >> you have the time. This is not the same as chimping. > >> > >> Bob > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > >> follow > >> the directions. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow > the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
