Advice on L 308 Sekonic and RB67 Readings

[Mr Bump]

Hi Folks I am planning (weather permitting) on taking the RB67 out for a damn good spin tomorrow and will for the first time be using my L 308 in anger.

Having a look around I am interested in using it in pukka incident mode, so i walk up to the object photographing point it back at the camera getting myself out of the way in the process?

yeah?

I am looking at heading up the hill in my town to a very old chapel with some ancient headstones in the grave yard and respectfully testing a roll of film on them?

 

[donut]

yep ,,,,,if target object is in the same light as you are ,just take the reading from where you're standing .

 

[Tintin124]

Also take a reading without sun hitting the lumisphere directly. See mac on campus on youtube or sekonic video (done by joe brady) using meter for landscapes for specifics.

Eg. Hold hand up at full arm extension and meter as low as possible then try move hand until you have no specular white dot from sun on sphere. This will give you a more accurate reading. O

 

[excalibur2]

Well I always promote the Kodak grey card and anyone might get one off ebay or boot sale going for peanuts OR http://www.diyphotography.net/diy-making-your-own-gray-cards/
So how do you use it? Well the trick is not to carry the card around with you all the time but initially to take a reading from a grey card and then point your meter and anything e.g. grass, shrubs, pavement, road, rocks, blue sky etc etc...once you know what subject can represent a grey card by memory or experience, then e.g. if you have a tricky shots with lots of white buildings in your shot (that can fool a meter) then take a reading of anything nearby that equivalent of a grey card and then take the shot with that reading.
Another e.g. a distant shot of a bridge and the background is bright white cloud...most cameras will get it wrong, but no prob as all you do it take a reading of the grey pavement or road etc which is in the same light as the subject then take your shot.
Also a distant shot of something in the shade (a bit more tricky without a spotmeter) but if you can take a reading of something in the same shade nearby, then there is 99% chance your exposure will be correct for the distant shot...... In sunny Ibiza traveling in a small white boat taking shots, I didn't bother with a separate light meter taking incident light measurements but just took the reading from the blue sky (which I knew was near Kodak grey) and then fired away and all the shots were correctly exposed.


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