On 2015-02-08 21:59 , Bipin Gupta wrote:
a) With 400 ASA film I would go down to 1/30 sec and f 2 to capture
street scenes at night, with excellent translation on print.
Using TAv mode on the the K20D or the K-5 IIs with the same
settings the camera would choose 1200 ASA or more.
I would assume that film is more forgiving. Actually cannot
explain this. A mystery to me??
i think it says nothing about film being more forgiving
you don't say whether, with film, you were manually setting the exposure or
the camera was metering it; if the camera metered it, it was making certain
assumptions, and your example would only show that the K-20/K-5 IIs meters
differently than whatever camera you were using with film; it doesn't
reflect on the qualities of film or digital at all, just on the exposure
computations
if you were manually exposing a dark scene, i wonder if you were exposing to
capture the sense of darkness, rather than the 18% gray that a crude
auto-exposure will seek; or if you sent your films to a typical lab, they
would likely make the prints lighter than the literal exposure, and you may
not have even known that your negs were (technically speaking) underexposed;
either way you can do the same when manually setting the exposure on a DSLR
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