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Metering Part 4: Advanced Light Meter

Metering Part 4: Advanced Light Meter

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Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 28

AdoramaTV presents Digital Photography One on One. This is the fourth episode of a four part series on metering. In this episode Mark demonstrates the advance techniques of using a light meter. Mark covers reflective metering as well as incident metering.


 

 

Metering Part 4: Advanced Light Meter

 

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much better than manual

This helped overcome the confusing manual. Now, how about one on how to calibrate the camera/lens combination using the Sekonic software.

by in Dallas on

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Robert's Question needs to be answered.

His question is the same as mine.

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Incident Reading

All through this series you show how incident readings give you perfect exposure. However, in showing the difference between incident and the spot metering, the incident reading (F8) gave a less than perfect result. What changed or what did I miss? I could understand if the reflective meter reading gave you a different result but not the incident. Thanks

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Superb!

Thanks... you made a pro outa me in 5 minutes! Well maybe that's a slight exaggeration... lol but I am getting some great photos in low light first shot! :) so thanks again...

by in Salt Lake City Utah on

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zone 8 - I think you have a typo?

Your middle grey reading was at f/5 making this your zone 5 value. When you switched to incident meter mode your meter read f/8. The difference between f/5 and f/8 is 1 1/2 stops. Your second photo here says "zone 8" in the sub-title. That would be three stops from your zone 5 reading of f/5. I don't think your second exposure is in the f/16 range so I suspect a typo on your title?

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Exposure

You speak clear, I understood because my language is Spanish I like You Class that,s the Way cordially Federico F. Moy from Mexico city

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