The histogram on my Canon 5DmkII is worthless. It, and the flashing
highlight warning often show that there will be overexposed areas, but
when I open the file in Lightroom, the exposure is perfect and there¹s no
clipping. If I believed the camera, I¹d underexpose a lot of my work. I
use a Minolta Flash Meter IV incident meter and it gives flawless
exposure. I just ignore the histogram now.
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On 2/22/15, 12:48 PM, "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>The world's best light meter is right on your camera. It's called the
>histogram. But I also think that the world's best color filters are in
>your digital post processor... no quick-connect filter device required.
>
>Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>On 2/22/2015 10:30 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
>> Finally, after all these years, I have purchased a Pentax spotmeter.
>> It's a first-generation unit and comes with the padded case. Got it
>> for about $26 on evilBay. It was sold cheaply because the seller
>> could no longer obtain the 640 mercury battery for it. Lucky for me
>> he didn't know about using the zinc-air battery which just needs a
>> small nylon sleeve to hold it in place.
>>
>> I already have the clip-on one for the Gossen Luna-Pro, but I was not
>> overly happy with it even though it's smaller in size. I've been
>> wanting to try one of these higher grade spotmeters for flower photos
>> so as to get a better feel for the diversity of light levels.
>>
>> I always carry an old General Electric PR-1 in the field, but for
>> flowers I just take a number of photos at various speeds to bracket
>> the exposure. I couldn't do that with film as it got pretty costly
>> for the developing, so I got pretty demanding about getting the
>> exposure just right the first time.
>>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro - Hunter S. Thompson
>>
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