I just want to post a little observation from a few recent shooting trips as well as some recent slide shows.
Regardless of film or lenses used, there is absolutely nothing in photography as important as proper exposure. How many photo lines have you been on where people holler "half a stop off...full light...a stop under..." etc. All this done without consulting a meter. Or (a little poke at Nikon here) guys with Nikon F3s ask the same questions or consult a hand-held light meter and mutter "I don't trust the meter on the F3..." Bottom line: get a meter that you can trust and USE IT. My Canons have bulletproof metering systems and I trust them 99.9 percent of the time. The Nikon N90s and F5 cameras are said to have the best meters ever installed in aNikon camera and judging from owner's comments, it's true. There is one Cleveland-based slide seller who consistently under-exposes his stuff almost a full stop and I don't think he's ever taken any kind of light meter reading. Get the exposure right on the money and it really doesn't matter what kind of film you have in the camera. Good exposure is good exposure. --DB --> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects
