I don't know how many of you shoot black & white, but it's an interest
of mine, and I just got back my first couple of rolls from the lab.
Not a drugstore lab, but my local camera shop's. Now I realize that
every shot really needs to be optimized in the printing process for
best results, even though it's been years since I've been in a
darkroom, but I'm finding that the results are different than what I
epxected - i.e., farther from what I imagined they would be than my
color shots are. I'd say in general over-exposed. As much as 2 or
3 stops in some cases, particularly where's there's sky in the shot
and I probably was careless what surface I metered from. For the most
part I was using aperture-priority and evaluative metering. That last
may have been my mistake - perhaps it's better for color, and I should
use partial metering.
I'd like to hear what if any adjustments you folks have made in your
approach to the camera's meter when shooting B&W. This may be an area
that one should think more in a Zone-system way, and would ideally
need spot-metering and multi-spot metering, not available on my Elan
7, but perhaps I can use the 9.5% partial mode similarly? I also
think I probably am imagining results for which I would need filters,
at least a red filter.
Thanks
Ken Durling
Website http://home.earthlink.net/~kdurling/
Alternate e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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