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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tdodd" data-source="post: 1211288" data-attributes="member: 55450">I'm considering getting myself a flash meter and have been browsing the Sekonic website to figure out which unit will best suit my needs. I stumbled across this page.... <a href="http://www.sekonic.com/classroom/classroom_2.asp" target="_blank">http://www.sekonic.com/classroom/classroom_2.asp</a> which demonstrates very nicely how you can nail your results perfectly by metering incident light and how badly you can screw things up by metering reflected light, if you do not appreciate the significance of the tonal balance in whatever subject/scene you are metering. Once you have metered correctly, however you choose to accomplish that, by then setting exposure manually you will be locked in to accurate exposures for any subject/scene receiving equivalent incident lighting. Just imagine the white/grey/black plates are white/grey/black birds <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>