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I received my Reveni Labs spot meter today. It arrived some months later than expected with what seems  to be the customary Covid excuses and some trouble assembling and calibrating the units. It comes well packaged in a green credentialed brown box, bubble wrap (ironically), and a nice carrying case. Four LR44 batteries were included (of which 2 are required to operate it). There is an online manual.  The manual does not explain how to open the battery lid and with some trepidation I used a table knife to pry the little clip and the lid came off fine.  I inserted the two batteries plus side up and snapped the lid back into place. The manual says the batteries are good for 5 hours of operation. This does not seem like a lot but experience will tell. (For reference I bought the Pentax in the summer of 2018 and still have the same batteries.) For the purposes of this first impressions post I am coming to this from the standpoint of using a Pentax analog spot meter which I ...

I am always on a quest to improve my photography. Recently I have been watching YouTube videos from the likes of Justin Lowery or Nick Carver . Young guys who cut their teeth on digital and found film; landscape photography in particular. Working in medium and large format and they put their experience and knowledge on video. The area I wanted to explore more is getting good exposures in difficult situations. Typically this involves some adaptation of Ansel Adams’ Zone System.  This article is a summary of what I have learned in researching the topic and my limited application so far. One should not hold this as authoritative by any means but it might be a helpful resource to introduce the subject. I have attempted to synthesize some sensible summary from the various sources I have researched. At the end I list some additional resources.   Zone System Having read in the past about the Zone System as promoted by Ansel Adams it seemed inaccessible to those working...