quoting QGdeB ;-)
Some cameras do indeed not have a meter. Again, that's another matter
entirely, without bearing on matter in hand.
end-quote

If meters were mandatory to get good results, and guessing per sunny-16
was not close enough most of the time to satisfy many users, then wouldn't
all cameras have some sort of meter in order to get satisfactory results?

the majority of cameras made being cheapy consumer models, many of which
have only three icons for "bright sun", "cloudy", and "indoors-flash" for
the camera speed settings, right? ;-)

Actually, things are going the other way. Many films now have such wide
latitudes that you can get good images out of the automatic lab printing
machines with terrible exposures ;-) I'm still using some Fuji slide film
that can be processed at ISO 100 to ISO 1,000, as the need may be ;-)

My basic argument is that many of us can probably judge sunny-16
situations within a half stop with some experience. Most meters of various
types (CdS, selenium, SBC..) will often disagree by 1/3rd to 1/2 stop or
even more, depending on the lighting type and angle meter is held and so
on. It can be disconcerting when your various meters (incident/reflected
SBC cell handheld, one degree spotmeter on an "average 18% gray" subject,
and in camera reflected CdS meter all disagree on the exposure setting ;-)

grins bobm
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