JCO wrote:
> Weve been down this road before, unless your > aiming your camera at a full screen 18% reflectance > subject the meter will over or under expose > the subject. the only way you could be accurate > is if you manually compensated the meter reading > based on the KNOWN reflectance of the subject and > that is nearly always UNKNOWN. It has nothing to do with the known reflectance of the subect. The meter will assign anything you meter to medium. This is a known fact. Then is the job to assign that to whatever tonality you want. That very easy. > you WILL miss due to film, processing, metering, shutter. > They are all REAL ERRORS always present. You may > be satisfied with your results, but if you think > that you are actually getting ALL your actual exposures > within 1/3 stop of perfect, you are mistaken. I get my exposures withing 1/3 of stop where I want them cisistently. Thats why I use a MZ-S and a 645NII and not a Spotmatic or an LX. Pål
