I usually use manual exposure and set both aperture and shutter myself without a light meter.
Why? because I do most of my photography outdoors under known lighting with color neg or BW neg both of which are not critical if you rate at half ISO. I still carry and use a digital light meter when I am not sure or for flash, but most of the time I don't need it and to be honest I trust myself under known outdoor lighting conditions than I would any meter. JCO -----Original Message----- From: D. Glenn Arthur Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Survey: How do you do exposure? > 1. How do you do exposure most of the time? Av or Tv or manual (doing > it > yourself)? Depends on what body I'm using. With the caveat that unusual lighting changes how I work unless I'm already on full-manual: PZ-10 -- usually P, occasionally Av or M; Program Plus -- usually Av, occasionally M; KX -- usually Av, frequently M; K1000, S1a, H3 -- M, of course; and all using M when I shoot flash, unless it's just the pop-up flash on the PZ-10. Before these got stolen, additional answers would have been: Super Program -- usually Av, occasionally P or Tv, rarely M -- TTL w/AF280T, sometimes with lens on 'A', sometimes not; K2, Spotmatic SPII -- M of course. Note that one reason I so rarely shot M on the Super Program was that on those occasions when I was carrying it and wanted to shoot manual, I usually had the KX or the K2 with me as well, so I just switched to a body that I found easier to use manually. > 2. Do you shoot digital or film? I think my list of bodies makes that obvious. ;-) > Optional -- > > 3. If you shoot digital, have you changed how you do exposure since > switching > from film? n/a -- Glenn
