>Chris wrote:
>
>>> it certainly can't get close to the accuracy of incident
>>> metering with a light meter.
>>
>> Oh, I think it can Simon.
>
>It can't. It's not that it's not good; it's not that it's not useful. In
>fact, it's superb. But it's just not measuring incident light.
>
For me, the important part in the OM-4/4Ti is the ability to spot
meter at all, not the multispot (although it is useful at times). I
never use the shadow/hilight buttons, but I use the spotmeter and the
exposure compensation dial all the time.
With time, you learn to spot meter a given area of the scene, and
then add or substract a given number of stops according to your
rendering intent (e.g., if you measured a spot which is "light", add
one stop of light to render it light instead of gray). The best intro
I have read on this system is in John Shaw's "Nature Photography". As
John Shaw puts it, once a given part of the scene is exposed
properly, the rest "will fall into place".
Bernard
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