On Thu, 10 May 2001, Bill D. Casselberry wrote:
>
> Basicly, as I see your situation, the main problem you seem to
> have encountered (and learned from, too ;^) is that your meter
> (as all meters) offers the exposure which will yield a "standard
> scene/18% grey" rendition. What you have is a predominately dark
> scene - so the meter suggests excess exposure to ensure the 18%
> "average scene" rendition.
>
> The comments on film repricocity are also relevant here for
> exposures longer than some particular time interval, depending
> on the film. For longer exposures, it is usually better to extend
> via larger aperture (up to that needed for required depth of
> field) rather than longer time, if you can.
>
> Knowing this tendency of meters allows the photographer to
> "compensate" by over-riding the meter in non-average conditions.
> If the scene were excessively bright (as when a light sky is a
> large portion of the frame), one would use this compensation in
> the opposite direction - increasing the exposure to allow the
> less bright portions of the scene to get enough exposure. If your
> camera (I forget what you have) has an exposure compensation dial,
My camera is MZ-M and it has an exposure compenstion dial.
Earlier, when I was quite new to photography, I was unaware of special
trick (the one that you have suggested above) to do metering of
non-average situations. As a result, either my
main subject showed an underexposure or overexposure. Now, I am getting
some acceptable results but I am not much happy with it. I feel that the
use of neutral density graduated filter would have done better for
non-average situations.
> this makes it a simple matter to deal with these "non-average"
> situations. Plus to add & minus to reduce exposure. The camera
> will then adjust one or the other exposure parameter.
>
> Bill
>
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> Bill D. Casselberry ; Photography on the Oregon Coast
>
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Thank you very much for your explaination and suggestion.
With best regards,
Ayash Kanto.
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