>From memory, I believe your OM-2S with a 200mm lens will provide about a 1
degree spot as viewed through the center circle of the standard screen.
Longer lengths will obviously give smaller spots.
A separate hand-held spot meter will bring you much convienence. You can
set up your tripod and camera independently of metering the scene. Is it
that much of a royal pain to swap lenses for metering purposes? Only you
can decide. The optical spot meters by Pentax and Minolta are true 1 degree
meters. That level of specialization renders them useless for anything else
(e.g. incident or flash), but they are definitely the right tool for the
job. Calumet offers a Zone VI model, a modified Pentax spotmeter that is
calibrated in foot-lamberts if you want to get *real* serious. I understand
Sekonic offers a model called the Zoom-master that combines spot with
incident and flash, see http://www.sekonic.com/Products/L-508.html for more
details. They are all, as I'm sure you've found, quite expensive.
John P
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there is no "never" - just long periods of "not yet".
there is no "always" - just long periods of "so far"
Dave Bulger <dbulger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>When a spot meter says 1 or 2 degree metering area, how does that translate
>to what I see through my viewfinder with a 50/1.4? I'm not bright enough
>to do the math on this...
>
.......
>
>I'm considering buying a spot meter to help me with this -- while changing
>to longer lenses to meter & switching back to the lens I'm going to shoot
>with generally works, it's a royal pain to do so sometimes, and I'm
>thinking a discrete spot meter will help me. But if the metering area is
>as large as the one on the OM2s...
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