Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simon Lamb wrote: > > Rob > > If I am pointing my M6 at a black anything, I would CLOSE DOWN two stops > (smaller aperture, faster shutter speed, faster film speed, whatever) as the > camera will try and overexpose the black anything to make it grey, and I > want it black and will therefore compensate with underexposing. I think that this is good advice for shooting chromes, but you have to be careful with neg film... The cat won't come out gray unless you print him that way!:-) Sometimes I like having more meat on a neg so that I can choose how to print the dark areas. If you have a denser neg in the dark areas of the image, you have more flexibility as far as which shade you'd like it to be. Of course, you have to balance this out with blowing out the highlights... SIGH! Everything's a chore... Isaac > > Is this a terminology thing. When you say "open up" do you mean by that you > would use f/11 instead of f/5.6 or vice versa? > > Simon > > Rob McElroy wrote: > > Snip > > >Mark- if you think opening up to shoot a black cat is "inexcusable", > "weird", "unlucky", or "mind >boggelingly pathetic", then you haven't > carefully > >read or understood anything I have said. My advice is absolutely correct > and I would gladly debate >anyone who wishes to examine the finer points of > >film exposure.