Shel, That's actually why matrix metering and print films work reasonably well. The matrix meter is not as influenced by minor compositional changes and print film has just reasonable latitude to deal with minor variances. I have on occasion bracketed print film by 2 stops either side and can only see a slight contrast loss on the -2 stop side in the print.
It probably comes back to that no brainer concept you talked about in shooting color film (at least print film). Bruce Saturday, May 04, 2002, 7:17:32 AM, you wrote: SB> I decided to exercise the ME Supers this week, and was thinking how nice SB> it would be not to have to think about exposure settings. I'd just put SB> the camera on automatic, set an aperture, and fire away. SB> Well, that was a fantasy! Here's the routine - camera set on auto, SB> focus shot, note reading out of the corner of my eye, reframe for subtle SB> compositional elements, exposure changes because the balance of light SB> read by the meter is slightly different even though the overall light SB> has not changed. Gotta think - which is the right exposure? What's SB> changed in the viewfinder? Is something very bright or very dark now in SB> the scene. What's the metering pattern for the ME S? SB> Unacceptable ... it's more work than using a spot meter or an incident SB> meter to read the scene and then just setting the camera and not SB> worrying about the details of exposure. - 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 .
