No politics please. One more post removed.

Tin Eye is great, works very well.

I think that's pretty much it. Of course we don't have to upload any images, but then we end up as hermits and communicate with no-one. Or are we assuming that our pictures are so great that someone will want to steal them? Should I be offended if they don't? We can also be too precious about this, so I'm just going to carry on regardless and not worry about it.

There's nothing I can do about it.

We don't normally link to live auctions, but I've moved it to General Chat. Hardly a Lead to a Deal!

The Spotmatic was average reading, so all of the image was measured equally. The later bayonet cameras were centre-weighted.

The Spotmatic was originally to have a spot meter, hence its name, but the results were too variable unless in expert hands.

I think Bob is right and we should all expect that taking "reasonable steps" to fine the owner would stretch to reading who had posted something!

I've modified the title, so hopefully that will cover Dave's point.

Sorry, post deleted, this site is strictly no politics.

Perhaps it's an industry driven rebalancing as many people have been stealing their material for years. Music tracks, video clips on YouTube, many used without the permission of the owners. And many people think it's public domain and perfectly reasonable.

Possibly a music track used in a wedding video, actually without permission of the copyright holder, sometimes even when payment has been made to the photographer.

Now this has been opened up and companies will take advantage, without a doubt. They are supposed to make reasonable enquiries before using material, so not much of a problem if your name is attached to something, say in the Gallery here. You can be traced easily enough. But once shared a few times across the web, the chain can soon be broken.

Time will tell.

The cinematographer will be talking about incident light measurement and reflective light measurement. The first measures the light by pointing the meter at the light source. The second measures the light by reading the light reflected from the subject.

This has got nothing to do with spot meters or any other sort of meter. A meter is made into a incident meter by putting a white translucent cap over the meter cell. This can be an Invercone, such as used on the Weston Master, or even a special filter to put over the lens on a DSLR.

Now, the second subject is the type of measurement used. This relates to how much of a subject a reflective meter reading measures. In the camera we can selct centre weighted, measuring most of the frame but concentrating on the centre. We can measure using spot, just the very centre of the frame. We can use matrix metering that uses many areas and also may have algorithms that try to guess what sort of subject we are shooting. If the sky area is very bright, for example, it might think we are shooting a landscape and adjust the exposure accordingly.

Modern in-camera meters are very accurate and very sensitive. You don't need a separate meter.