Chrome...Probably the easiest and least expensive is a $5.00 18% grey card that you can get at your local photo shop. This is the equivalent of using an incident meter, but requires you to do some thinking and decision making. You have your subject hold the card midway between the camera lens and lighting and you meter off it with the spot meter on your camera on either manual, aperture or shutter modes, depending on the effect you want. Then you can adjust further by using exposure compensation and it allows you the greatest flexiblity and creative control for the least amount of money.
Another cheap alternative is to purchase an incident light meter from Ebay, as you can get them super cheap for decent ones. You don't have to spend alot of money for an incident meter so I recommend this too.
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