Ken Durling wrote:
> 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. . . .
>
> 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.
Hi Ken,
I don't see why that should make a difference--the meter is measuring
reflectance not color, after all. I haven't had any trouble metering b&w using
evaluative metering with either an EOS 3 or an Elan 7 (I don't recall using b&w
in the EOS 5), or with the center-weighted averaging of an A-1.
Two questions, and a suggestion:
1) What kind of b&w was it�"real" b&w or the C-41 stuff? That could make a
difference.
2) Are the prints from a minilab machine? That could make a difference too.
FWIW, I've seen Kodak Select Black & White + (or whatever they call it) printed
on a minilab machine with surprisingly good results, but my local camera shop
has a stock of (apparently soon-to-be-discontinued) Kodak Professional B & W
paper for machine printing, and that had a lot to due with the results.
The suggestion is to take the negs to a lab and have a contact sheet made. That
way you'll be able to compare the relative exposure of all the frames on the
roll and thus be better able to judge whether the problem is with exposure or
with the printing (it's probably too difficult to determine whether the negs
were overdeveloped).
Personally, for the relatively little b&w I shoot, I use regular b&w film and
develop it in the kitchen, and then have a contact sheet made.
fcc
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