Hi Kostas I nearly forgot to thank you for your answer! greetings Markus >> >>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 >> >>
