reflected light vs incident light metering

sreenath wrote:

Hi All,

I was reading Kodak Color handbook (a very old collection of booklets
from Kodak, possibly late 60's), where there is a long treatment of
various techniques.

There is a statement in that book that surprised me:

"Field studies have shown that pictures made using reflected metering
appear to be more pleasant than those made with incident light
metering"

I may not be repeating exact words, but this is the idea.

How is it that pictures made using reflected light metering are "more
pleasant"?

Considering that it was an old book, the views at that time may have
been very different. Hand held light meters are much better now than
they were in the distant past. A modern comparison of Incident .vs.
Reflected metering is at:

http://www.sekonic.com/BenefitsOfIncident.html The images show the
comparison nicely.

Ciao!

Gordon Moat
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