Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I watch these discussions with interest or envy. In the great frozen north (Toronto), the outdoor picture taking is almost over for another year. It's dark when I leave for work and dark when I get home so I am very aware of how little indoor light there is around me. At EI 400, the exposure in my office during the day is 1/30 at 2.8. Inside my house the average exposure in the evening at EI 800 is 1/15 at f2. I really need a Noc! Ken (in the dark as usual) Lee > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Johnston [SMTP:michaeljohnston@ameritech.net] > Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 5:58 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us; doug@meditor.demon.co.uk > Subject: [Leica] Exposures > > > > >>>The bottom end seems a bit optimistic, only five EVs down from the > top > end. Perhaps US offices and homes are brighter lit than their US > countparts. For the office I work in here in England, 1/60 at f1.4 is > about right (eight stops from the top end)<<< > > Who was it recently who was writing about Fred Maroon? Fred said that > the interior of the White House was "always 1/60th at f/4." I've found > this works at my office, as a sort of "generic bright interior," so it > gives me a reference point for night shots and darker interiors. > Generally, just as focusing by feel works better for the farther > distances and less well for the closer ones, I'd venture to say that > guessing exposures is more useful outdoors than in. Although many > exposure meters underexpose indoors. > > Again, these are just handy reference-points, not rules. > > >