Response to hm... incident or reflected light?

The most important and most overlooked aspect of using one or the other of these methods is their relationship to each other. In other words, what are they really telling you when you use them. The reflective meter is giving you a reading that will render the area read a middle grey (18%) when printed. The incedent meter is giving you the same reading you would have recieved using a spot reading off a grey card in that area of the area photographed. So---if you use the incident meter in the shadow area, all areas of the photograph will fall in place in relationship to a properly exposed grey card in the shadows.

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