On 22 Nov 2005 at 15:26, Adam Maas wrote: > Great shot. > > I will note that it's most likely not the LX's meter that is at fault > for the exposure, but rather the reciprocity characteristics of the > film, which has cost you about 3 stops of speed at that point. You need > to compensate for reciprocity on exposures like this, but once you know > the necessary adjustment, you can dial that in via the ISO setting.
Any suggested under-exposure in this image obviously has little to do with the reciprocity characteristic of the film and is all to do with the bright lights in the scene vs meter sensitivity/response pattern. That said it's also easy to see that exposing to reveal the shadow detail would have meant that all the lights would have burned in and the shot would have been ruined. I think the metering was actually fine in this case. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
