Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jerry-- So true. When I was in college, my photo professor, who was an absolute tyrant, did teach us about light meters; he made everyone buy a Weston Euromaster and a Kodak Gray Card. We had to carry that bloomin' gray card with us everywhere we went, and he always made us meter off the card. I remember he said, "whatever it is that you measure with that meter will be middle gray in your picture." Most everything else he tried to hammer into our heads I tried desperately to forget, but what a light meter does wasn't one of them. I always remembered that whatever you meter in the scene will be middle gray in your picture. Kit - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jerry Lehrer Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 11:53 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] metereless Steve If you start willy nilly compensating for light or dark subjects, you start to lose control. Read about the Zone System, understand it, and use a spot meter. Jerry Steve Unsworth wrote: > Jerry > > I don't think so. A reflective light meter averages everything to approx 18% > grey doesn't it? :-) > > An incident meter measures the light falling on an object and the object > itself 'controls' how much of that light is reflected back to the > photographer. Black objects reflect, well, not a lot so they appear dark; > white objects reflect more so they appear lighter. > > Of course I could be totally wrong (not for the first _or_ last time ;-) > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Jerry Lehrer > Sent: 17 April 2003 18:41 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] metereless > > Steve > > I have a feeling that you are confusing an incident light meter with a > reflected light meter. > > Jerry > > Steve Unsworth wrote: > > > Don't think so, you're measuring the light that's falling onto an > > object, not the light reflected from it. A black object will appear > > black because it absorbs more of the light that's falling onto it than > > a white object. > > > > Steve > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html