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e.g. How to Shoot Silhouettes Against a Sunset WHY DO SOME PHOTOGRAPHERS ARGUE THAT HAND-HELD METERS WHICH MEASUREINCIDENT LIGHT PROVIDES THE MOST ACCURATE FILM EXPOSURE?
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Because a meter will measure the light around you, and the camera can be fooled by the brightness of an object in the frame. For example- you have two 4 foot squares. One is completely white, and the other is completely black. You take them outside, you get your camera ready, and you look at the black square thru the camera so that all you see is the square, and then you take a reading with the camera's meter. Then you do the same with the white square. Now both were in the same identical sunlight, so why not end up with the same reading. But when you get the readings from each, I wouldn't be surprised if you ended up with a 4 f-stop difference between the two. And if you took a picture of both, when you got your prints back, you'd probably find that the black square pic looks faded, and the white square pic looks too dark, maybe even light gray. But if you use a light meter to measure the sunlight, the pics you'll get you say that the black looks dark like it's supposed to, and the white looks bright like it's supposed to.
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