>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 Definitely a C-. I simply refuse to get a D. Thx. Yeah, I rarely use f16. And luckily I don't really NEED to know this stuff to take good pictures. I do set the aperture and shutter speed manually, but I rely heavily on the light meter and go from there. Marnie aka Doe :-) Although I'd heard of "sunny 16" naturally.
