Micky Bill
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 Re: Light Meters Still Relevant | |
I have 4 meters and use them rarely. If you use the same lights and know what kind of power they put out then with experience you will be able to get very repeatable results. When I had a studio We used to set up a lighting scenario and then we'd bet on the exposure, loser bought coffee or lunch depending on the time of day. We could get pretty close.
Meters are good for getting in the ballpark as it will tell the 'correct' exposure but not always the 'best' exposure. In the olden days nobody would go directly to shooting film from a meter reading. We'd do a reading (or bet on exposure) shoot a polaroid and then adjust form there. Today instead of a polaroid I shoot a frame, check the led and the histogram and adjust from there.
To complicate things more, I'd run clip or snip tests from each set up and then adjust processing, because the final proof is in the film, not the meter reading.
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