Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Yama. To all of that excellent advice on exposure control in the other replies, I would add that Velvia benefits from careful scanning too. The slides can be quite dense. If you are scanning your own, you can increase the 'exposure' during the scan. You need to look at the histograms from scan preview. Over fifteen or so rolls shot of bright sunny scenics down to lower light, I typically increased the gain 1/3 to 1/2 a stop during the scanning. Naturally, as with the original exposure it's vital that you preserve some detail in the highlights. Examples scanned this way here (this is Velvia 100F) <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/c_001/> http://tinyurl.com/4zy4bm By the way, you might like to try the Provia 100F next time. It is kinder on skin tones especially but is every bit as sharp and still gives plenty of saturation when you want it. Or Astia if you are shooting largely people stuff. Perfect portrait palette, more restrained saturation than the others. Very sadly all of those wonderful Fuji pro slide films now cost 5 or 6 times as much in Aus as in the US of A! Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ -----Original Message----- Subject: [Leica] Another first..Slide film http://flickr.com/photos/helloyama/ shot with velvia, m6ttl, and Summicron 35 v3 i still need to work on metering with the m6, a lot of shots are underexposed, so I guess I need to overexpose a half stop to a stop. Does anyone have any tips? Thanks! -Yama Nawabi _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information