Unless I'm metering individual lights in a studio arrangement or
checking fill flash I don't even bother with a meter any more. A couple
of test shots and chimping the histogram will get the exposure nailed
very quickly.
Chuck Norcutt
jgettis81@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Not quite the answer you are looking for considering it is using flash. I
> am planning on shooting photos at my brothers house on Thanksgiving but I
> am going to set up a couple of vivitars on light stands to bounce off the
> ceiling in oposite corners to provide light for the photos. I have a set
> of cheap ebay radio slaves to set them off and a light meter to check
> exposure. Olympus content I am going to use my E-30 to take the photos
> with. John
>
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>
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>> Jim Nichols wrote:
>>> In anticipation of using my recently acquired E-1 at a Thanksgiving
> gathering, where indoor light will be the norm, I decided to experiment
> with such a setting to see how it performs. Using items in a bookcase,
> with normal room lighting, I set the camera to ISO 800 and tried several
> exposure compensation settings, shooting RAW images for processing as usual
> in PSE 6.0. I was impressed. Here is an example: A travel alarm clock
> that belonged to my late father-in-law, on a bookcase shelf.
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Travel+Alarm+Clock.jpg.html
>>>
>>> Does anyone have suggestions for indoor, no flash, shots with the E-1?
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
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