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Title: The Hand Exposure Meter Book by Gerald Hisrchfeld, Bob Shell, Martin S. Silverman, Jim Zuckerman ISBN: 0-9671523-0-5 Publisher: Photo Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Hmmmmm
Comment: This is simultaneously a great book which undermines itself with redundancy in the order of the ridiculous. Don't get me wrong, I'm not planning on throwing it in the trash, infact I found it extremely useful and interesting reading. What I did find perplexing was why I was reading the same information on the same page written three different ways!
For example suppose I wrote ...
"There are two ways to get from a to b, one of them involves the colour blue and the other red"
Then the follwing paragraph gives you...
"After trying to get from a to b and not succeeding with other colours, we can arrive at the conclusion that there are two way's of getting there, namely blue and red"
And finally...
"Don't even try getting from a to b without doing it the blue and red way"
I kid you not, this is precisely how some pages read, over and over in adnauseum. Now, getting past the awful editing in this area - which feels to me as if they couldn't justify selling the thing with it being so thin so they decided to cheat, beef it up with redundant paragraphs - this is a very good book and extremely informative if you happen to use a hand held meter, especially if you happen to own one of the Sekonic Meters. I do, and thats one of the reasons I bought this book, because I wanted to know more about what the pro's have to say about 13% grey versus 18%.
By all means grab this book but be aware it might not be the best value for money, on the other hand it's about the ONLY book out there which provides this info so you basically have little or no choice in the end. I am happy I got it, but it's a flawed work, thats all.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Only Handheld Meter How-to. Thankfully It's a Good One.
Comment: Sometimes it seems that nearly every instructional book written on the subject of photography includes a chapter on how to use your in-camera exposure meters. But this is the only book that is dedicated specifically to the subject of how to use a hand-held accessory exposure meter. This book is published and copywrited by Mamiya America Corporation. For this reason, it showcases their at-the-time top-of-the-line exposure meter, the L-508. The L-508 is pictured and alluded to throughout the book. However, if you are interested in learning how to use an incident light meter or a handheld spotmeter, everything in the book is relevant, no matter what brand of meter you use. This book does not address handheld area meters at all (by this I mean handheld meters which meter a wide area of reflected light). There is also information on using your meter as a flash meter, if it has that capability.
I really found this book to be useful after I purchased my first handheld meter. The book is certainly not long...84 pages, but it contains all the necessary instruction and some nice photographs. The book is not really organized into chapters. Instead it is divided into many short sections. Some of the subjects covered are: why buy an incident meter, features of incident meters, how to choose a meter, incident metering techniques, spot metering techniques, flash metering techniques, how meters are fooled, filter factors, and metering for fill flash. The book also gave me some interesting ideas for photographs.
In truth, the book is poorly organized, but I did not find that this detracted from the content very much. The three authors each wrote his guide for using handheld meters separately, and they are simply bound together in this book. So it is like reading 3 booklets on the same subject, which is repetitive, but no less informative than a better-edited book would have been. I do recommend reading the entire book, since each author has something to contribute.
Recommended for those who are considering buying a handheld meter and for those who have a handheld that you aren't quite sure what to do with.
Rating: 1
Summary: TALKS MORE ABOUT CAMERA'S EXPOSURE METER
Comment: This book explain more the disadvantage about the camera's exposure meter than teaching you to handle your hand held exposure meter. come on experts we know that basic true. the reason we bought this book is to get familiar with the Hand Exposure Meter but you did you teach us that?
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Title: Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson ISBN: 0817437126 Publisher: Amphoto Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Perfect Exposure: Jim Zuckerman's Secrets to Great Photographs by Jim Zuckerman ISBN: 1582971269 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
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Title: Basic Studio Lighting: Photographer's Complete Guide to Professional Techniques by Tony L. Corbell ISBN: 0817435506 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Lighting Cookbook: Foolproof Recipes for Perfect Glamour, Portrait, Still Life, and Corporate Photographs by Jenni Bidner ISBN: 0817441964 Publisher: Amphoto Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Confused Photographer's Guide to On-Camera Spotmetering by Bahman Farzad, Linda Voychehovski, Ron Smith ISBN: 0966081706 Publisher: CPG Books Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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