Originally posted by GUB Considering my cellphone has one beside the screen so it knows how bright to make the screen that is accurate and presumably close to free it is ridiculous there is not one on my K1.
Then you are saying it’s ridiculous that every SLR camera made by every manufacturer over the past nearly 6 decades have had this somehow essential component missing.
Have you considered that they aren’t put on cameras anymore, and haven’t been since the early 1960s because their extremely limited functionality makes them next to useless compared to TTL metering?
Quote: Combined with digital preview I could home in on the appropriate setting even quicker that what I currently do - that is - take a guess and see!!
The incident meter could work in conjunction with a EV calculator app on the LCD and interact with shutter etc edials.
Given how shonky the in viewfinder metering can be when you take your eye away from the viewfinder to find the green button it would be a great step forward.
It could be an alternative programmable function of the green button.
It sounds to me like you are creating problems for yourself with poor technique and a refusal to learn how to use your gear.
---------- Post added 03-16-19 at 10:03 AM ----------
Originally posted by Dartmoor Dave I think it's actually about people who have used incident meters for decades, and who understand perfectly well what their benefits and limitations are, expressing an opinion that it would be useful to have an on-camera incident metering option of some kind. So that we can use the camera as if it was an incident meter when we choose to, in situations where we can't use our handheld meters for one reason or another.
Many of the replies seem to assume that an on-camera incident meter would mean trying to get incident readings while looking through the viewfinder, which of course wouldn't work and isn't what is being asked for. What is being asked for is the option of using the camera as if it was a handheld meter when desired, to meter the light falling on the scene rather than being reflected by it.
The only time, in nearly half a century of photography, that I have found an incident meter to be useful is in the studio. I every other photography situation I have been in, and about the only type of photography I haven’t done is going into outer space, the ambient meter has stayed in the bag. I recall when I started out that I used an old Fujica rangefinder from the mid 1950s, and I used a handheld meter with it. In rapidly changing conditions it was useless. In anything but ideal conditions it was useless.
TTL meters were the answer to a very real metering problem, that being ambient light meters.
I could see a return of the built in viewfinder blind being quasi useful, but ambient meters with a sensor on the top of the prism someplace? Not a chance. I simply cannot think of a single situation where it would be better than a TTL meter.