Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wow, Bob, there must be some energy wasteroos around Central Missouri, either that or you're shilling for your employer. ;-) Where my son goes to preschool (here in Eastern Massachusetts) the classrooms consistently meter at 1/60 at 1.4, right in line with typical household lighting. Back in the "good old days" I remember public spaces lit with flourescents clocking 1/60 at f/5.6, but that's was a l-o-n-g time ago. I was working with another photographer at the Federal Courthouse in Boston the other night photographic some area teenagers staging mock trials. The lights in the courtrooms were cranked full up (for video taping and the like). The brightest room I was in metered 1/60 at 2.8, the others were 1/60 at f/2. Rob Schneider > A fluorescent lit classroom is not a low light situation. If you use 400 > speed black and white you can shoot at 1/15 @ f8 and basically forget focus > with wideangle lenses. >