Lighthouses and a case for manual exposure.

[walterick]

to say that I meter incident light almost exclusively off the palm of my hand. My Nikon 8008s has a very sensitive meter and I know from grey card metering that the palm of my hand (I use the palm rather than the back of my hand as the back gets tanner in the summer) is exactly 1 2/3 stops over 18% grey. So when out shooting under changing light I'm always "taking pictures of my hand" as my family calls it to determine proper exposure. Of course, that has nothing to do with sunsets But it does help you to get perfect results over and over again with variable aperatures or changing light.

I can't figure this out with my FM2n because the viewfinder doesn't give me 1/3 stop increments just + and - diodes so I need to figure it out there. But with the 8008s I'm aces

Thought I'd add my 2 cents.

Rick

[Speed]

to say that I meter incident light almost exclusively off the palm of my hand. My Nikon 8008s has a very sensitive meter and I know from grey card metering that the palm of my hand (I use the palm rather than the back of my hand as the back gets tanner in the summer) is exactly 1 2/3 stops over 18% grey. So when out shooting under changing light I'm always "taking pictures of my hand" as my family calls it to determine proper exposure. Of course, that has nothing to do with sunsets But it does help you to get perfect results over and over again with variable aperatures or changing light.

I can't figure this out with my FM2n because the viewfinder doesn't give me 1/3 stop increments just + and - diodes so I need to figure it out there. But with the 8008s I'm aces

Thought I'd add my 2 cents.

Rick

That what I read was right...or at least in the ballpark!

(Pats himself on the back for being well read)

;-)