On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Markus Maurer wrote:
If you show me where I find the histogram on my film SFXn I will follow your advice .. ;-) That's one of the good things about digital: Testing costs nothing but time and you immediately see the results.
Except if you are trying to shoot something fairly mobile.
I have to write down the settings with film and wait 4 days to get the first prints from the lab.
I did the following for flower macros: I did 3-4 films noting down (mobile phone voice recording) exposures and bracketing +-1 on negative. In all cases, my metering was done off my palm, using spot-metering; the camera was set to overexpose by 1/3 of a stop (ISO setting to 320 on a 400 film). The films came back and I found out that the spot-metering on palm was a good exposure. I no longer jot down nor bracket. For targets beyond my reach, I now practice metering off something in the vicinity of my target which "looks like" my palm.
YMMV (and I may get instances when I am not happy and need to readjust the above),
Kostas
