On Friday, January 11, 2002, at 12:29 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Tell me something - if the LX meter is so perfect, why do people > continue to bracket their exposures?
They would be bracketing if they are unsure of how they've used the meter. I don't seem to recall any of these posts praising the LX meter that say "yeah, I put it on full auto and don't think about anything at all!" Mine certainly haven't. Please don't chide us from crimes we have not committed. ;) Personally, I find myself bracketing very rarely, and only in cases when I'm concerned that the range of light in the scene is going to blow out or block up at one end or the other. Of the thirty rolls of film I shot on my Christmas holiday trip, I bracketed two shots for focus (I was concerned about the edge of an image falling out of focus when enlarged -- and it did, so I'm glad I bracketed there), and on a number of shots varied my composition, but I don't believe that I bracketed for exposure at all. I have one image that I let the snow get a little bit too bright for my tastes (though had I exposed darker I likely would have lost the shadows). I'm more likely to bracket when using my little Sekonic than when shooting with my LX when the subject is more distant from me, since the Sekonic doesn't have a spot. -Aaron - 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 .
