Ben Goren wrote: > Any normal ambient lighting is going to be fine. There're so many stops > difference > between what negligible amount might leak past the bottom and the > instrument's own > illuminant that you're not going to be able to measure the difference -- > it'll be > dwarfed by sensor / electronics noise and temperature drifts and the like. > Don't shine > a really bright light directly at the base as you tip the instrument and > you'll be > fine. Actually, most of this is calibrated out. Before each measurement, a black calibration is performed, so any stray light will get subtracted out. Graeme Gill.