1. What is the difference between an incident light meter and a reflective light meter? Which is used in the DSLR camera?
A reflective light meter can be hand held or built into a camera. It is aimed at the subject. It measures the light of a subject. On the other hand, an incident light meter is aimed toward the camera. It measures the light falling on the subject.
2. Describe how a center weighted meter works.
It averages all the light in the room and weighs its average to give more emphasis to area at the center of the viewfinder rather than to the surrounding area.
3. What lighting situations can cause the cameras light meter to not work properly?
A snow scene can make the light meter not work properly because it reads it as a middle grey and it will come out too dark.
4. What are the steps to over come a misleading reading?
You can move closer to your subject to have the meter focus on the light of your subject, and not the overbearing light from the background.
5. In a reflected light meter, what is the tonal value the meter “see” and recommends as the exposure?
It sees middle grey.
6. Explain in your own words how to make a white object white when using an averaging meter?
You adjust the exposure and add a couple more stops then suggested.
7. Explain in your own words how to make a black object black when using an averaging meter?
A reflective light meter can be hand held or built into a camera. It is aimed at the subject. It measures the light of a subject. On the other hand, an incident light meter is aimed toward the camera. It measures the light falling on the subject.
2. Describe how a center weighted meter works.
It averages all the light in the room and weighs its average to give more emphasis to area at the center of the viewfinder rather than to the surrounding area.
3. What lighting situations can cause the cameras light meter to not work properly?
A snow scene can make the light meter not work properly because it reads it as a middle grey and it will come out too dark.
4. What are the steps to over come a misleading reading?
You can move closer to your subject to have the meter focus on the light of your subject, and not the overbearing light from the background.
5. In a reflected light meter, what is the tonal value the meter “see” and recommends as the exposure?
It sees middle grey.
6. Explain in your own words how to make a white object white when using an averaging meter?
You adjust the exposure and add a couple more stops then suggested.
7. Explain in your own words how to make a black object black when using an averaging meter?