Re[2]: in-camera metering

[seungmin@luxmail.luxcom.com]

     Hi Donal,
     
      I have been looking for a right meter for a while.  I have had Gossen 
     Luna Pro Digital in mind.  It doesn't have the flash meter function.  
     Have you compare your Seconic to Gossen?  
     
     Thanks,
     David

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Subject: Re: in-camera metering
Author:  leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us at Internetmail
Date:    5/31/97 11:32 AM


Fred Ward wrote:
>  Once you do this and if accurate
> exposures are important to you, those will be the last pictures you will 
> ever make by taking reflected light readings. The only way to get
> professional exposure results day in and day out in every situation 
> except photographing stained-glass windows or other light-emitting 
> sources is to use a hand-held incident light meter.)
>
I've always wondered what the hoopla about in camera meters is all 
about.  Except for on the fly program automatic flash fill for happy 
snaps, I can't imagine trusting an incamera meter.  The results are so 
spotty.  And the incident method is so predictable.  Even the new 
whizbank Hasselblad meter prism finder I saw advertising lately has a 
build in dome for incident.  Somebody was thinking.
     
When I started shooting chrome (and exposing for the highlights) I grew 
to love the incident meter.  And as I began to do more heavy duty strobe 
lighting, it became a necessity.
     
Recently my Gossen SBC got some water damage and has to go into shop, so 
I bought the latest Sekonic L-308B ambient/flash reflected/incident 
meter to back up the Minolta.  The Sekonic has become my favorite.  The 
percentage of F/stop readout is a little hard to read quickly, but it is 
so small and easy to use.  Perfect for M bag or shirt pocket.  About the 
size of a pack of cigarettes.
     
Donal