Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/08
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Francesco wrote:
>So you are saying to walk over to the subject and point the dome at
>the sun if the sun is the light source?
Francesco - all you do is point the dome at the camera position - not at
what _you_ think the light source might be. Taking your example, the sun is
a point source which causes an awful lot of reflected light from various
sources on the ground.
The essence of incident light metering is that it will quickly and simply
average _all_ the light sources for you.
If you're still not convinced, then bracket. Most of the time the meter's
reading will give you the optimum exposure.
Slan
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