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Re: [OM] more on multi-spot

Subject: Re: [OM] more on multi-spot
From: "Babis E. Mavridis" <mavridis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 03:31:11 +0300
> It doesn't. I goes + 2 2/3 stops. It's roughly the difference between 18%
and
> 100% reflectance.
yes this is the hole think, but what this is exacly means ?
can you give me a very simple rule to follow and get the corect explose ?



> Because you rarely need exposure compensation greater than +/- 2 stops
I don't think so :) this is not the reason.
Well you say that 2 2/3 stops is the difference between 18% and 100%
And what is the difference in stops between 18% and 0% ?
And if you add all that together ? what you get ?
maybe 5 stops ? maybe  a range betwenn +2 0 -2 ???

And why 5 stops ? the difference between 0% and 100%
and not 10 stops ?
>From what is depent the maximum stops ?



Ok maybe I make some questions and I know that questions is like the attact.
It's like an attact because I ask to get somthing....
but the truth is that I am make the questions to help me and you to....
(to be continue)
Babis


----- Original Message -----
From: "William Sommerwerck" <williams@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 02:47
Subject: [OM] more on multi-spot


> "Why OM have +/- 2 stops (and not +/- 4 stops, for example)?"
>
> Because you rarely need exposure compensation greater than +/- 2 stops.
And
> given the OM's design (you're not biasing the exposure but changing the
film
> speed) +/- 4 stops would be mechanically difficult.
>
> "Why the highlight button is going -2 2/3 stops?"
>
> It doesn't. I goes + 2 2/3 stops. It's roughly the difference between 18%
and
> 100% reflectance.
>
>
> "The truth is that OM manuals give the right way to shoot but they don't
> explain the reason "why they do that?"."
>
> I don't agree. There is nothing objectively "correct" about Olympus's
> recommended multi-spot technique. As I previously explained, blindly
following
> this method does not guarantee either "correct" or pleasing exposure.
>
> The Japanese bring an "aesthetic" sense to things that Westerners often
find
> rather odd. The true purpose of multi-spot is _not_ to produce a
more-accurate
> exposure, but to allow the photographer to tweak the exposure in whatever
> direction pleases him -- in a fashion that appears to be scientifically
> objective, rather than arbitrarily subjective.
>
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