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In a message dated 19/07/2007 12:37:15 GMT Standard Time, retorta@xxxxxxxxx
writes:
american photographers always meter the light before taking a picture, french photographers afterwards" Assuming that this statement in the magazine was true what would be the
point of the French photographers action. If it was simply as a check so
that they could try the shot again if they felt tthat they had made a bad choice
initially then there is little difference between the two actions - apart from
allowing the French to get lucky once in a while with a fleeting subject. On the
other hand if they recorded the details in a notebook which was later used in
the dark-room to help to optimise the D & P process that would be a somewhat
different matter.
The quote conjures up pictures of photographers using light meters to
measure incident light. Has modern through the lens light metering with a
meter built into a camera made incident light metering obsolete or maybe reduced
its use to a few specialised application?
Michael.
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