It wasn't a test, so it wasn't repeated. Al I'm saying is that the LX with it's OTF metering worked better than expected and gave 36 perfectly exposed negatives in very low and changing light.
I said nothing about saturated negs - I said that they were perfectly exposed. Shel > [Original Message] > From: Aaron Reynolds > > On Jun 26, 2006, at 11:27 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > > I once did a series of shots - 36 exposures - in a darkened room > > except for the flickering light of a TV set. The film was TX. > > All I did was set the LX to AUTO and let the camera do the rest. > > I paid no attention to reciprocity nor did I try to adjust or > > compensate the exposure in any way. > > The result was 36 perfectly exposed frames. Exposure times > > were quite long ... some certainly in the area of 30 seconds or more. > > And Shel, when you repeated this test with consistent shutter speeds on > another camera, did you get varying results, or did you also get > saturated negs that could not hold anything else? > > -Aaron > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
