Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:07 AM 6/10/97 -0600, you wrote: >Does anyone here clip their chromes before running them? For those not >familiar - a lab will cut the first five frames from a roll, run it normal, >call you in to check it and then push/pull the remainder to get the correct >exposure. The cost is minimal, and the results are deadly accurate. > >This is a common practice here with some of the wildlife/nature stock >shooters. The expense of a reshoot is far greater than losing the frame that >is cut. This works only if the each roll is exposed consistant throughout. I >saw this on a local pro's film - he shoots for a Harley type magazine. He >ordered clips on five separate rolls. None of which came out exactly right. >He made the adjustments: +1, +1 1/2, +1, etc., and the resulting corrections >were awesome. The clipped portions came out under, but had he run them all >normal, so would the rest have. It sounds like sloppy work, but is actually >quite cool. > > >Regards, > > >Ben W. Holmes Ben, I use "snip tests" (not usually called clips) occasionally when I'm in doubt about the exposure vs subject matter. If you are going to rely on a snip, you must be absolutely consistent in your exposure thinking when shooting the roll. It's not that you don't know how to expose a situation, sometimes different exposures of the same scene all give good results. But only one "mood" is suitable for your intended purpose. A snip test will allow you to hone-in on that exact mood. A snip test runs $5.50 at my local lab. Jim