on 2012-01-29 05:29 Paul Stenquist wrote
On Jan 29, 2012, at 12:16 AM, steve harley wrote:
on 2012-01-28 21:57 Paul Stenquist wrote
That's basically what today's best meters do. But they still can't gauge
reflectivity and color as well as the human eye can. The meter makes a call and
a good photographer makes the necessary adjustment. Most of the time the meter
will come close enough for all practical purposes. for those times when it
can't the photographer has to lend a hand. It wouldn't be much fun if machines
did all the work.
i submit that most of us don't have "today's best meters"
The K-5 comes somewhat close, but no it's not at the top of the heap. But it's
more than good enough when photographers use their brain as well as their
meters.
that may be, but i suspect that 1) most of us don't have K-5s, and 2) even much
worse metering systems are "good enough" — we can learn to compensate for
anything; some of us whose professions are to designs ways to exploit
technology, however, will instinctively imagine extending tools as far as is
possible and efficient
so as i gravitate toward a more manual process, i imagine the kind of tool i
want to work with; the histogram (preferably representing RAW exposure, and
live) simply offers a more direct means to an end; a camera's meter just gives
one data point; we have to guess how it has evaluated the scene to get the what
histogram gives us directly (or spot meter several points); i think the
histogram is a better tool for using our brain in conjunction with our meters,
and is better suited to intelligent but spontaneous photography
i could even appreciate an interface that applies a little more calculus to
image data to indicate where in the image, and at what levels, the angle of the
histogram's curve is steepest and shallowest, which is part of what i sort out
(less effectively) with my brain now
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