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Re: How to use a hand light-meter?From: howardxtlester@verizon.net (Howard Lester) "Darkroom User" wrote
You're probably posting this to the wrong newsgroup, and I think I can answer your question. When I first started shooting in large format I used my Nikon F3 as my meter. It worked fine. But once I got my little Sekonic L-318 (I think offhand that's what it is) incident/reflected meter, most of my exposures were assisted by the incident metering. Incident measures all the light falling on the subject regardless of the subject's tonality, shadows and highlights, and its general reflectivity. That helps give you the best overall average reading for the scene. It's very easy to use. You just walk to the subject and point the meter's white dome at the camera and take a reading. Where the reflected meter is best used is on a landscape where you can't walk to it, as in a distant scene. Then I will attach the reflected meter "dome" and take a reading that way, especially if I don't want a lot of sky emphasis. Even so, I may then corroborate that reading with the incident dome. If they match, good. If not, then I have to re-think how and what I'm measuring. Another advantage of these incident meters is that mine, at least, can read to the accuracy(?) of tenths of a stop. Oh, by the way, you still have to think.
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