At 00:44 6/15/00 , Lex wrote [near the end]:
>
>Seriously, tho', try it with a forgiving film like Tri-X (if you do your own
>darkroom work), one of the chromogenic monochrome C41 process films, or most
>ASA 400 color print films. Fuji 800 Superia X-tra is great too - very
>forgiving stuff. Spend a day or two metering every condition you can think
>of and make a note of 'em. After that you'll probably find you seldom need
>to meter anyway.
>
The Kodak Pocket Photoguide (formerly Kodak Master Photoguide) has a
wonderfully simple wheel in it for computing outdoor exposure by "Kentucky
Windage," the method used by many, many photogs until the advent of
integral reflected light meters on most bodies. Works well. Once you've
used it for a while and gained a little experience with its definitions and
examples, you can look at a scene and get to within a half-stop for the
overall scene. The wheel for existing light farther back in the book takes
over at about sunset for night shooting.
I can't say enough about this tiny guide. It has all manner of information
in it from standard correction factors and usage of common filters to
obscure things like exposure correction for lens extension tubes, and
estimating exposure settings for photofloods and copy stands. It is spiral
bound, printed on high quality card weight paper, small enough to fit in a
dress shirt pocket, and thin enough you could probably stuff 3-4 of them in
the same shirt pocket. Best of all they're about $10, maybe a little more.
I don't use mine very often, but when I do it's invaluable.
If you don't want to spring $ for the book, you can go to Kodak's web site,
pull up the data sheet for any one of the ISO 100 films, copy the exposure
guide portion of the data sheet, and adjust by stops (or fractional stops)
for different ISO ratings. It's "the wheel" in tabular form for a specific
ISO.
Whenever I see a fully functional "beater body" I also see a "face that
launched a thousand ships."
-- John
(who doesn't work for Kodak or sing their praises about all their products)
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