I wrote:
>
> Light is measured in a confusing welter of units. For the US, at least,
> traditional photographic units are footcandles for incident light
> (illuminance) ...
But, I might add, typical incident light meters don't measure illuminance
because they have hemispheric domes instead of flat discs. But that actually
works better for practical photography.
Paul Farrar
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