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[OM] Re: OM-1 to OM-4T - worth an upgrade?

Subject: [OM] Re: OM-1 to OM-4T - worth an upgrade?
From: jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:16:46 -0000 (GMT)
>
> James asked:
>
>> Interesting. I never thought about buying a light meter
>> rather than relying on spot metering. What is it going to
>> do for me that the om4ti can't do?
>
> Measure incident light. Spot metering, however good it may be, still
> always assumse the object reflecting the light is 18% grey. Oly assist the
> user in countering that with the SHADOW and Hi-LIGHT functions, and (to be
> fair) they work well, but it's still not as good as taking an incident
> light reading when you're ignoring the reflectity of the subject
> completely.

Sorry run this past me again. This sounds interesting but is where my
knolwdege runs out....
I understand that the light meters on camera assume the picture 18% grey
hense spot metering to avoid under exposure if there is lots of sky.
What is incident light?



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