Sounds like way more trouble than the results are worth -- in
other words, a solution only a gear geek could appreciate or
bother with.
Spot meters, like in the OM-4, or any other sort for that matter,
work really well IF, and only IF, you know how to use them
correctly. It doesn't take a genius to learn to fairly quickly
spot 15%* gray equivalents in nearly any scene and meter off them
accordingly.
Of course, OTOH, 990f the time, an incident reading with a GOOD
meter is still better, assuming once again you have slightly more
than just a glimmer of a clue about what you're doing.
*Recent studies indicate that the world at large, and everything
in it, on the average, actually comes out to 15 0ray instead of
the 18% we've been led to believe in for years. Like 3% really
makes a difference!
Walt, who is only 10 0ray, and that's mostly in the beard.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: W Shumaker <om4t@xxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 09:53:33 -0400
>The camera does not make a better photographer. I have been
>working with my C-5050 as a metering tool - the histogram
>function in particular. What I discovered at a recent workshop is
>that spot metering requires a known tonality to use accurately.
>For example, if you spot meter the green leaves of the trees in
>the background, there are greens, speckled highlights, dark
>shadows, and it may be difficult to determine how much of each
>is influencing the spot meter. Using the histogram display with
>the C-5050, the spot meter portion is displayed in green on top
>of the overall histogram. If you get a sharp spike in the green
>histogram display, you are spotting on a known tonality, if it is
>spread out, you don't have a known tonality. Aiming the C-5050 at
>some background trees, sure enough, the spot meter portion is not
>a sharp spike. Aiming at the sky, it sharpens up to a spike.
>
--SNIP--
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