--- Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob Meyer wrote:
> >
> > My Elan IIe handles back lighting quite poorly.
> >
> > __________________________________________________
>
>
> Bob - my ElanII does a wonderful job on backlit
> subjects, what metering
> mode are you using.
xnip
> I shoot only print film but have
> also done the same
> with slides and bracketing and sometimes no
> bracketing and again no
> complaints. Don't get me wrong here, not all my
> pictures turn out to be
> good ones but the exposures are generally ok on most
> of them.
I probably should have clarified: I was speaking of
using the normal "evaluative" metering mode. Using
CW, as you do, might well help on many images. The
biggest difference, however, is your use of color neg
film. The lattitude of modern neg films is so big,
and the ability of printers to compensate so good,
that exposures that are far from optimal will turn out
all right.
But using slide film, with its much narrower
lattitude, you'd notice that the Elan II (at least
mine), tends to underexpose the subject badly on
backlit shots.
P.S. Please excuse and old man's pedantic avoidance
of the term "print film." To those of my generation
<g>, print film is for making positive images *on
film*, from negatives. Film used for making
negatives, which are then used for prints, is
"negative film."
But Hell, I'm so old I still sometimes use the term
"reversal" film for the material that we shoot to make slides.
=====
Bob Meyer
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