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Counter uses:

Cameras these days are provided with location meters or standard meters. Sometimes we may find both types in the same camera. They are also available separately

About the camera too. To help you choose one of these two types, we show below some issues that you may encounter and the best ways to deal with them with both types:

Standard counter

the topic

My location counter

(Mediterranean)

A good picture of a girl with a door or balcony in the background strongly shaded.

Hold the meter close to the subject, keeping anything but the girl's face away from the meter

Take a face reading from the camera position

Portrait of a girl's face against a bright sky background.

Hold the meter close to the subject, taking care not to include any part of the face.

Take a face reading from the camera site

Bright sailing boat with sun

Take a reading of the topic close to you, similar to your topic, and with the same degree of lighting.

Point the counter to the most important part of the topic

Be sure to tilt the counter a little so as not to cover the sky, just as not to cover the trees in the foreground

Landscape surrounded by trees

Choose the most important part of the subject or take an average reading by taking a reading of the brightest part of the scene except for the sky and the darkest part, then choose a middle location between the two readings

Lonely flower on a tree Take a close reading of the topic Take a reading from any site Fill in the topic with a specific view

Black dog on the beach

Take a reading of a nearby subject with a similar degree of illumination

Take a reading from the camera position if the subject fills the viewfinder

A number of people standing in a shaded balcony

persons

Take a close reading of the topic if possible or a similar topic nearby

Take a reading of the topic from the camera site

View of a street through a storefront glass from the inside, camera in shadow and subject in light

Take a reading near a window or go outside to take a reading

Take a reading of the topic from the camera site

We note that there is a similarity in some instructions in both cases. . Thus, you find that any type of counter can solve any obstacle you encounter if you use it in a way

correct . There remains a type of light meter that should be recognized before completing this research. I have read so far of light meters that measure the light reflected from the subject. .. However, it is also possible to read the lighting falling on the subject by means of meters known as Incident Light Meters. These meters contain a semi-transparent three-dimensional dome installed above the photocell that measures the level of illumination. It is worth noting that it is also possible to take a reading of the incident light

The subject is using a normal reflected light meter, as most of these meters are equipped with a semi-transparent screen that slides on the front of the photocell or is fixed above it when taking a reading of the incident light. The counter is then used by holding it close to the subject and directing it towards the light source, just as we do with the incident light counter.

Incandescent light meters are designed to be used vertically, unlike reflected light meters that are used horizontally. It is also equipped with a rotating head to rotate the dome to face the light source from the camera site in case of side lighting. Its head can also be rotated 180 degrees or converted into a reflected light meter by replacing the dome with a grid

= Photographing towards the sun contrejour or with back or front lighting of the subjects became easy by the incoming light counters, these counters ended the troubles that were occurring with their predecessors as a result of being affected by the bright background of the subjects, and the three-dimensional dome provided with it corresponds to the three dimensions of the subjects on reality, thus producing a reading Accurate lighting levels.

To touch the difference between the reflected and incident light meter, we will make a comparison in use on the same topics that we assumed when we compared the site meter.
And the Mediterranean: