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No, you use a spot meter for the zone system, generally.
by frostburg 5y ago
No, you use a spot meter for the zone system, generally.
- lmilcin 5y agoYes, spot meter. At least until you learn to go without one. The easiest is to use the one you already have in camera (I assume DSLR). Just configure it to be smallest possible spot. Then measure objects depending on which zone you want to place them. This means manipulating camera exposure until the spot meter shows it in the right zone. Unless I have some very specific artistic effect in mind, typically the most important measurement is to measure highlights as overexposing is much more damaging than underexposing on digital camera (which is exactly opposite to film photography).