Hi,
I shoot B&W 99% of the time (delta 100 & kodak infrared) and I
find the
"sunny 16" rule works great. So I use my eos5 in manual mode. When I
can't determine exposure I pull out the trusty gray card.
I compensate for filters manually. I develop my own negs and print my
own prints, this is the only way to go with black & white.
-Dan
Canada.
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. 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.
>
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