On 8/29/2010 12:51 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
I decided to run a test roll through my Argus C3 to see if it still
works. I noticed that the hand held meter seemed to match the meter
in my SRT-101 but was a stop or two off from the meter in the K-x.
If the K-x said 1/60 the hand held meter said 1/250 sometimes. Other
times reading off a grey card, they matched a bit more closely.
So, I tried shooting test shots with it both at the hand held
metering, and using the metering from the K-x. Oddly enough, there
isn't an obvious, huge difference in the way that the prints look. I
suspect that Walgreen's printer automatically corrects.
Methinks that with negative film the precision of metering is less
important than with digital. I am not saying that meter can show you any
number, but that the tolerance or leeway is more with film than with
digital, even if you shoot raw. Perhaps, it has to do with the
difference in how film and sensor react to over and/or underexposure.
Also, my understanding was (at the time I was shooting film) that if you
give 'em a roll that is constantly over/under exposed, they might be
able to compensate for it in a uniform way...
I may be totally wrong on both counts as well...
Boris
P.S. I still remember going out with my Voigtlander Perkeo I folder and
not having much problems with exposure at all. I'd take one reading just
before I go out with my camera meter (MZ-6) and then set the exposure
accordingly. Little folder has no meter of its own...
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