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Incident v Reflective Metering?

  • 17-03-2011 10:02pm
    #1
    PopeBuckfastXVI
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,155 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    Just picked up an old jessops light meter on ebay for use with my bronica. Could someone who knows more than me (i.e. anyone on this forum!) please let me know if there's any gotchas in incident metering? My plan is to point the meter back towards the camera, away from subject, to take reading (or at least parallel to the normal angle of the area I want to expose for), and basically feed the settings into the camera. Is this about right? Should I be pointing it towards the sun instead?

    Up to know I have been spot, center-weight, or average reflective metering areas of the scene of interest using my d80, and taking those settings and applying them on the bronica. Obviously I'm hoping the jessops meter will take over from that.

    Any advice would be much appreciated!


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  • #2
    sineadw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,319 ✭✭✭sineadw


    Nope - point it back toward the camera and bobs your uncle :) Just make sure there are no shadows falling on the meter - like you standing between the meter and the light. And hold it right up to your subject's face..


  • #3
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,264 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    incident metering is basically metering the amount of light falling on the subject; so it there's a little opaque dome on the meter, just hold it generally facing the light source. if you're standing in the same light as the subject, you don't have to worry about metering at the subject itself, you can do it where the camera is.
    the good thing about incident metering is that it's independent of the reflectivity of the subject, so it won't fool the meter.


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