Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Michael D. Turner" wrote: snip > That's always been a "rule of thumb". I often use my palm as a zone vi > reference when I want to make incident readings with my spot meter. Seems > to work quite well and saves the bother of fiddling with gray cards in the > wilderness. > > Mike My Minolta spot meter isn't supposed to focus that close if you can believe that because I'm not sure I do. I'll do the palm as a zone vi thing or: Aim at the darkest texture zone iii Aim at the lightest texture zone viii Hit the Average button. If the spread is not too wide I go with it Love that spot meter. Mark Rabiner