Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Gib, That is exactly what I do as well. The Sekonic L-508 is my companion for the M3; I use it mostly in incident mode for B&W, and I meter for the highlights when shooting slide film, sometimes opening up one stop based on experience. When I want to photograph my kids running around the house, I take my Pentax PZ1P with flash. Nathan Gib Robinson wrote: > When > I'm taking B&W landscape photos with fine grain film and time isn't much of > an issue (except sun time), I usually want to know lots about brightness > range and the relationships between objects in terms of reflected light. In > that case, an incident meter doesn't cut it. A one-degree spot meter works > best for me then. On the other hand If I'm taking portraits of kids moving > around outdoors, an internal meter plus a good incident meter is usually all > have time to use. - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium Photography page: http://members.tripod.com/~belgiangator/index.html Motorcycle page: http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/downs/1704/index.html