Re: Somebody suggested luminous-landscapes.com...

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gr wrote:

> You don't have it. It's a neat feature, but something I don't use very much
> anyway. If you need something similar, try changing your metering to "spot",
> then take a couple of readings in the bright and dark areas and set your
> final exposure manually. It will give you an idea of the dynamic range in
> the picture. If the spot readings give you differing exposures by 6 f-stops
> or more, you're probably going to either over or underexpose some areas.

  Cool idea.  The more I think about it, the more I like it... but how do I
ascertain the right level to max exposure without overexposing?  Probably
not reasonably doable, but this spot-exposure idea would help a whole
heckuvalot.  Thanks!

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