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RE: [OM] exposure comp. for non-grey scenes

Subject: RE: [OM] exposure comp. for non-grey scenes
From: "Daniel J. Mitchell" <DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:16:39 -0700
> Manual exposure?  Take a reading from a grey card, or 
> overexpose 1 stop the back of your (ungloved) caucasian hand.

 Oh, right, and now that I think about it, the logic here goes:

 hand is correct.
 hand is darker than snow.
 so metering off hand is darker than metering off snow
 so I want to expose as if the scene's darker than it 'really' is
 so I want to let in more light than the camera thinks I need
 so I want to open the shutter for longer, and that's what the + on the dial
does.

 I kept on trying to work back and forth between the various flippings of
things-are-light -vs- camera just thinks they're light, and confused myself
no end.

 Not from yesterday, not using OM bodies, completely OT, but for one of the
very few shots I have of me snowboarding, see:
http://www.danielmitchell.net/gallery/albums/misc/dan_jump2.jpg

 Yes, it is the right way up. Yes, I have no style, and no, I didn't land
it..

 -- dan

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