On May 14, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Darren Addy wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> One thing that I don't understand is how a handheld light meter would work >> significantly better with digital than taking a photo and looking at the >> histogram. Or, for that matter, if it's an important shot, why not just >> bracket. Drop $100 on a light meter, and that will buy you a terabyte of >> storage. Plus, if you bracket in digital, you always have the option of >> combining the frames in post production. > > I can't argue with your logic, Larry. > Oh, of course I can. > :)
I don't have time for a full on discussion right now, but my issue with incident light meters is that they don't take into account the reflectivity of the subject. Note, that I also didn't suggest bracketing action shots, nor did I suggest that bracketing is always the answer. My question is, what does taking a light meter reading get you that the histogram doesn't? For that matter, what does an expensive incident light meter get you that one of those incident light meter/ white balance lens caps doesn't? -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
