andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>.........
>But that doesn't actually answer the question originally put by James,
>one that I've also been puzzling over for a while and still have
>only half an answer, which is basically about how to use centre-weighted
>metering as it is in the 2n to help with zone metering:
>
>
>>At 4:10 PM +0000 2004.02.11, James Royall wrote:
>> <SNIP>
>>... Someone here suggested looking over
>>www.kenrockwell.com, where I found his version of the zone system. This
>>and presumably any other more 'controlled' exposure technique requires
>>metering a zone in the scene.
>>
>>
>and in particular
>
>
>>Is this completely impossible with the
>>centre weighted meter in the OM2n? What if there is a substantial area
>>that can be metered? How big a proportion of what is in the viewfinder
>>would it need to be to give an accurate reading? Failing this is it
>>possible to meter off a grey card and adjust?
>>
The practical answer is that is is not center wieghted enough to be any
use for zone system work unless you carry around a nice long lens (much
longer than the one used to capture the image) to use for metering
and/or have rather large areas of equal tonality to measure.
Moose
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