At 03:30 PM 05/06/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Acouple of years ago, I shot a roll of negative film with a camera
>(Akarelle) I bought at a flea market, for $15 CDN.
>I used the exposure sheet supplied with the film for my exposure reference.
>The prints came out properly exposed (a real shocker).
>There's plenty of exposure latitude in today's films that 2 stops over or
>under is still acceptable.
>
>Jeff
>
The answer to this, like most photo questions, is what are you trying to do?
Do you just want an acceptable "been there, done that" image or do you
have some specific use or visualization in mind? Sweet 16 will get you
a workable image of sorts; sweet 16 with 1-stop brackets up and down
will definitely get you something. But if you are shooting for reproduction
in a specific medium -- glossy magazine, fine art print, B&W, electronic,
etc -- or if you have a specific visualization in mind, some combination
of spot- and center-weighted -metering is probably called for.
Programmed metering is probably too unpredictable in those circumstances.
Those are the kinds of scenes that drive almost all B&W landscapists to
the Zone System.
Buford C. Terrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Professor of Law (713) 646-1857
South Texas College of Law
1303 San Jacinto Houston, TX 77002
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