Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/07

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Re: metering middle grey
From: "Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 16:11:00 -0700

Jim,

Its not Bob, it is what Kodak is stating about the new gray cards.  They are
indicating it requires a 1/2 stop correction.  He is trying to find out if
it has to do with the material of manufacture and has posed the
question/comment to the Rollei Users Group.

Peter K

- -----Original Message-----
From: Jim Brick [mailto:jimbrick@photoaccess.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 3:36 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Re: Re: metering middle grey


So Bob Shell is saying that "all" incident meters are wrong... Mine sure as
hell isn't and it agrees perfectly with a reflected reading of all of my
18% grey cards.

There would sure be a hellova lot of industrial/commercial/fashion/fine art
photographers that have been using their incident meter for decades,
without knowing that their meter is/was wrong. It's amazing that they take
such great photographs.

And the schools don't even know this. WOW!!!

Maybe Bob got a bad batch of grey m..... cards.

Jim


At 02:05 PM 4/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>From the Rollei List Bob Shell has authoritatively and convincingly
>turned my head around.
>He says middle grey is 13% and the middle grey card is 18% so you have
>to open a half stop when you use it.
>I quote myself:
>I find it quite humorous to find out this late in my photographic life
>that the middle grey card is not middle grey.
>"It's like finding out that middle grey isn't middle grey!"
>What next? Is nothing sacred?
>Did everybody know but me?
>I you walked up to me in a bar and wanted to bet me whether the middle
>grey card was really middle grey what would I have done?
>I going to go bury my head in the sand!
>Anything else you guys/gals want to tell me before my hair falls out. I
>know about Santa.
>Mark :-) Rabiner