Sunny 16 says that for a bright sunny day, you set the aperture at f16, and the shutter to the speed nearest the ISO rating of the film - or the inverse of the shutter speed anyway. So if you use 400 ISO film, you set the shutter to 1/500.
>From there, you adjust according, depending on conditions, shadows, etc.- open a stop if it's hazy, a couple of stops for light, high cloud, another stop for overcast, etc. Problem is, that especially in larger cities areas near industrial zones, due to the more or less permanent haze caused by pollution, it's more like "sunny 11" these days. Anyway, Marnie, the point of this post is to more or less correct you, insofar as the shutter speed is based on the ISO, not ~always~ at 1/125 as you indicated. cheers, frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > <snip>>5. How accurate is the Sunny-16 rule for exposure. > > With the shutter speed set to 1/125, usually right on on sunny days. However, > despite all that, I rarely use f16. Supposedly on sunny days, it will make > middle tones the 18% middle gray that a light meters use as its basis. <snip> > -- "I don't believe in God, but I do believe in pi" - Henri Cartier-Bresson
