som wrote:
> I am back. And it is good to be back.
And it is good to have you back. I have missed you. Honestly.
>I didn't realize how much i was
> missing till I got home tonight and saw all 327 messages and smiled and said
> yeehaa. Okay so i grew up in a cave? I was so glad to see how much the
> group had grown since Aug.
Yes, a few pounds more, I can feel it...
>I hope everyone else rang in the new year in an
> exciting way. I was in a jeep in a ditch.
How come I'm not surprised?
At least no snakes around this time though, I guess?
>To much snow here in St. Louis.
Congrats. Just like in Stockholm then.
> Which brings me to my question. I want to take pictures of trains. Mostly
> Union Pacific which are basically a golden/yellow, with red words and gray
> roofs. The place I want to go take pictures has at least 8 inches of snow
> on the ground, possibly more because of drifts.
I think you already got some good advice on this.
I guess they will be running, so remember the shutter speed fast enough to catch them
right. The faster the more they... (sorry that got to be too difficult for me to
figure out in English right now. I'm too tired.)
Also remember if you shoot at a distance with lots of sunlit shiny white snow in the
picture and just a small train in it, you'd probably do best in compensating +2 (two
stops overexposure) to get the white o.k. (If on print film, the lab will likely get
it wrong for you anyway though, but you just tell them they have to redo it right for
you. Tell them I said so, and I'm a Viking.)
If no direct sun, you might settle for only +1, and if it's very cloudy overcast,
maybe even the snow will do for a perfect grey card...
>will my pz-1p have a chance
> at getting the exposure on this? What would i meter in this situation? i
> don't have a gray card. I have a spot meter i could take with me, but I
> don't know how to use it. It has no instruction manual. It is a sekonic
> digilite f model l-328.
Don't know about that model, or any other non built-in model for that matter. Probably
very good. I use spot meter a lot on my MZ5, but remember that a spot meter can get
you awfully wrong if you don't know how to use it properly - you may accidently point
it to the wrong spot so to speak. You got to point it to the equivalent of that 18%
(or 13%) grey OR to the object that you WANT to represent that grey.
>I was also wondering if i would be better off using
> my medium format camera in this area.
Only if you want the larger size, and don't mind the handling of it. For metering I
can't see any advantage.
> I guess what I want to know is, Do i stand a chance if i just go out there
> and play? or will I be wasting my time and money?
Yes, you do. You stand a chance of screwing it up badly, and you stand a chance of
getting some lucky shots. Why don't you just go out there and handle that PZ1 like the
gun you put to that poor snake's head and then return and tell us how much money you
wasted....<g> (Just kidding. But please tell us about your results.)
> som ( i guess being laid off does make you think a little before you snap)
Sheesh, I read so fast sometimes that I'll miss a word here and there. Typically an
odd "off" will sometimes pass unnoticed...
Lasse
P.S som, Please tell us about your trip to London. We all got confused on the list
when, in November(!) we got a post by you saying that you were off for London in a
couple of days, and the date of that post was in August... Was it your sister who was
there? Did you get any good shots? (Or did I miss your report on it?)
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