I'm not making a case for/against auto exposure. Exposing manually helps
the photographer learn alot more about exposure, thats for sure.
I think I started shooting slides with the MX (almost exclusively Velvia)
and then with the PZ-1p (Velvia and Provia 100F).
With the MX of course, totally manual. With the PZ-1p, usually in
hyper-program mode. In both cases relying on the in-camera meter, adjusting
EV on occasion if I thought circumstances deemed it necessary, I rarely had
shots that were over/under exposed.
I doubt very highly that anyone could consistently tell by looking at
exposed film, how the metering was done. If the camera metered incorrectly
vs. the person metering incorrectly, how would it look any different shot by
shot? If I dialed in a dead-on-center exposure setting in manual mode,
versus the camera choosing a dead-on-center exposure automatically, what's
the difference? The medium being exposed doesn't know the difference. I
could meter manually and consistently mess up exposure or put on full auto
and have the camera mess it up for me. I don't use full auto anyway.
What's more the lab guy wasn't there to see the actual lighting conditions
at the time the film was exposed.
Is consistent exposure the same as correct exposure?
Tom C.
From: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:29:54 -0400
i was shooting slides almost exclusively when i when i got my first
autofocus body, roughly 80% Provia 100F, 10% Velvia, and print film the
remaining 10%. it stayed in AE and AF modes most of the time except when
doing macros. i figure i have thrown away perhaps 20 frames because they
were over or underexposed to my taste by more than a stop. some more have
blown highlights because of too great a dynamic range, but not a lot more.
a very large percentage of the time, i wasn't using exposure compensation.
manual exposure superiority over automatic is vastly overrated.
Herb....
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the fellow who runs the lab at which i get all my b&w stuff processed
tells me that he can tell by looking at exposed film who exposes
manually and who sets their body on auto. those who expose manually
have much more consistent exposures. those that rely on their cameras
have exposures all over the place.
