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----- Original Message ----- From: "Feroze Kistan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thank you, questions interspersed if you dont mind. > > I was taught to hold the card flat or get the model to hold it against > herself, check > that its evenly lit and measure a couple points to get an average reading. > This is the first time > that I saw someone using it at 45. I must mention that I'm using the cameras > meter, is the process > the same for a hand held? A gray card is simply a way to use a reflected light meter such as your camera as an incident light meter. To do that properly hold the card vertically in front of your subject facing your camera position and take a close up reading off the card. The result should be exactly the same as if you used an incident light meter held up before your subject and pointed at the camera position (proper incident meter technique). > For now the sunny16 rule would require experinence that I don't possess. > When outdoors > I was taught that you can meter off the palm of your hand and it seems to > work and as the yanks > say I try not to fix what ain't broke. Is the sunny 16 rule & the grey card > method 2 different ways of > metering to get the same result. Can I just learn how to use a grey card > properly and stick with it? The palm of your hand is about one stop brighter than a gray card. Taking a reading from it and opening up one stop should give you equivalent exposures. All methods of determining proper exposure are trying to do the samething. The trick is to do it the same way each time. It hardly matters what you use as long as you are consistant. For istantance, using the palm of your hand as a reference as you mentioned above once you have by experience determined the proper film speed to use that give you acceptable negatives or slides with that technique is every bit as accurate as using a gray. Usually, I use Agfa CT-100 slide film for exposure tests. Any technique that gives me consistant exposures across a roll is a good technique. Is there something magic about that film? No, it is just by always using the same film and having it processed at the same place, I elimimate a lot of varitables and therefore get more accurate results.
