A.B.,
you're right about that.
One of the best advantages i find on spotmeter is the option to be adaptive for film capabilities. For slide film the maximum contrast differential is 5 EV stops, for negative 7 EVs. There's no way you'd know it with simple reflective light meter in a bit more difficult conditions to choose the proper exposure time. And with separate spotmeter you may always sum the reading results over the picture to reproduce the simple reflected light meter even more precisely for your needs (you may choose your own custom summing spots). I shoot fully manual medium and large format and search for the higher image quality, thus no hurry anyway to get all done with one button push as dominant digitals and 35mm do.
Margus
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