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[OM] Re: Incident vs reflected, was olympus Digest V3 #236

Subject: [OM] Re: Incident vs reflected, was olympus Digest V3 #236
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:39:07 -0400
If the subject is a kilometer away you obviously can't be at the 
position of the subject.  But you should still be standing in the same 
light as the subject and be facing the camera from the same direction as 
the subject.  And the meter's dome should still be pointed at the camera 
as opposed to into the sky.

Chuck Norcutt

Chris Barker wrote:

> It is easiest to point it at the  
> camera, provided the acceptance angle of the dome is suitable, but  
> it's important to realise that it's the light source you are  
> measuring and how it has illuminated the subject.  In my case, it has  
> not been possible to point the meter at the camera from the subject  
> and I have measured the light source, a sunlit sky.



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