Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Seriously I've don a ton of digital shooting in the past decade and the amount of time I've spent measuring light hovers right around zero. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:09:32 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Light metering with the Leica M9 > > In a dark place like a theater I'd be just peaking at the image at the back > for the camera and occasionally checking for a highlight clip. > But really if I'm liking what I'm seeing as I'm shooting just by glancing > at > the back of the camera do I need to pull out a spot meter? I cant think of > why. > Never after liking what I'm seeing at the back of my camera am I not able > to > get at least that in a final Photoshop file, jpeg or print. Normally I can > bring out quite a bit more. Even a slightly clipped highlight. > > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > >> From: "Peter A. Klein" <pklein at threshinc.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:44:31 -0700 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Light metering with the Leica M9 >> >> The only time I use a spot meter anymore is in the theater or concert >> hall, and occasionally for testing. The histogram is a wonderful light >> meter. It leaves no guesswork as to whether the area you're measuring is >> truly representative--if a highlight it going to blow or a shadow goes >> below zero, you know it. All you waste is a free test shot. >> >> The MM is unique because it has no highlight headroom. So the spot meter >> will let you recalibrate yourself re. how you use the internal meter. >> But I suspect the histogram will be just as good, and eventually you >> will just know that in this or that high-contrast situation, you'll take >> your initial shot at minus 2/3 what the meter says, or something like >> that. And then, one test shot and a glance at the histogram will reveal >> whether that's correct or not. >> >> Here's an M8 concert shot where the spot meter was truly necessary. The >> brightness range exceeded the sensor, I really needed to know what would >> fall where, and whether I could get the faces OK without losing anything >> important in the extremes. This was a live performance, so I didn't want >> to be messing with the histogram and disturbing the people around me >> during the music,. >> >> Now, if I'd had the MM, this shot would be better. The shadowed faces >> are right at the lower limit for detail without too much noise. I'd have >> a bit more "footroom" in the shadows with an MM. >> >> Too bad the MM is priced out of my socio-economic status... :-) :-( >> >> --Peter >> >>> Me, too! I used the spot meter with the M9 until I learned I could trust >>> the meter. The MM is more picky and I might go back to the spot meter >>> until I can figure out how it is metering! >>> >>> Tina >>> >>> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Paul Roark wrote: >>> >>>> I've, frankly, been surprised at how well the M9 meter works given the >>>> rather simply approach. I took my spot meter out on one trip and that >>>> was the end of bothering with it. >>>> >>>> Paul >>>> www.PaulRoark.com >>>> >>>> >>> -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information