I feel a case of the vapors coming on.
If the sun is low in the sky and your incident meter is 10 feet further from
the sun than your subject, the amount of light falling
on the meter is less than the amount of light falling on the subject since it
falls off with the according to the Lord's inverse
square rule which will give you overexposure but I'll leave the actual
calculation to Moose who really likes those sub-sub 1/3 stop
values.
:) It's okay everybody, I'm only kidding.
Lama
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Pearce" <bspearce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 10:12 AM
Subject: [OM] more on metering...
><edit> I often forget to mention that the
> incident meter needs to be pointed at the camera, with the very top of the
> ping-pong ball thingie aimed at the center of the front element of the lens.
> Any other way, you're on your own. I've used this plenty of times outdoors
> with the meter at the camera position, but correctly aimed, with perfect
> results.
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