Acer
I probably misunderstood what you were advising. You meant that Tom
should meter off his own hand and open up a bit. I am sorry, that is
what I do much of the time when using my OM1N to check the validity
of the meter's view of a scene.
I had thought that you were talking of metering off the subject's
darker skin and opening up ...
Sorry
Chris
At 17:22 -0700 2/9/01, Acer V wrote:
use incident metering...all else failing, make sure your palm
(inside of hand) is in the same light as the subject, and meter
that, open up one stop.
voila, for print film it works perfect, heck, works great on slides
too, but with print, any error (IF any, it should be <1/3 stop) wont
matter. the
cardinal rules are palm in same light, facing straight and square to
camera (otherwise reflected light will vary a bit). the reason it
works is there is
no melantonin or pigment on the inside of human hands (the palm), so
they are all the same colour regardless of your skin colour. works
for me.
/Acer V
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