[pure-silver] Re: Need help with exposures, please, - Peter

Afterswift@xxxxxxx wrote:
In a message dated 10/24/06 1:53:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time, dana.myers@xxxxxxxxx writes:

    This tells me that an incident meter measures the amount of light
    falling on a
    surface.  An incident meter, of course, does not measure the range
    of brightness
    in a scene, which may be an advantage or disadvantage.

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I don't know if this applies, but it seems to me that both an incident and reflection type meter behave the same way when the subject is completely black or completely white. Both meters will tend to report an 18% gray. In the case of the black subject, I usually bracket underexposure two stops. In the case of the white object, I overexpose two stops. The idea is to produce a negative that will yield a true black and a true white to match the original subjects.
Bob

An incident meter will give the same reading regardless of the subject. It doex not see the subject but the light illuminating it. The reading it gives is the exposure you should give a mid-gray card if that was your subject.

Try it.

Bert

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