> I used to practice all this by carrying around a spot meter. Whenever I had > a spare moment, I'd pick an object or surface at random from my > surroundings, guess its EV, "place" it as a target tone a la the ZS, > translate to camera settings, and, finally, check myself with the spotmeter > to see how close I had come. > > You do get awfully good at this relatively quickly. Interestingly, though, > it's not a function of training your eyes to "meter" light--turns out that's > almost impossible, according to tests done at NIMH--but rather learning what > amount of reflectance is likely in certain lighting conditions. _That_ you > can get good at.
I guess that this means that we can learn to be our own incident light meter. I'd have to agree with that. Len --- - 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 .
