Re: [Leica] exposure question

["animal" <s.jessurun95@chello.nl>]

sorry ment zone III
my problem is that i the areas i can still see detail in at night i cant
meter .so what i,m really looking for is a way to determine a zone visually
that i can .
thanks for replying
simon jessurun



- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Pope" <leica.user@ntlworld.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] exposure question


> Simon,
>
> By decreasing the exposure, you are going the wrong way around.   You need
> to INCREASE the exposure.
>
> Zone VII, according to Ansel Adams' 'The Negative' is the tone that
> represents "Very light skin, light gray objects; average snow with acute
> side lighting".
>
> So if you meter off an area and you wish to place it on zone VII, then if
> the meter reads say 1/30 at f8, you need to give an exposure of 1/30 at
> f4.0.
>
> Hope that helps
>
>
> regards,
>
> Mark Pope
> Swindon Wilts, UK
>
> http://www.monomagic.co.uk
> http://www.leica-gallery.net/mark-pope
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "animal" <s.jessurun95@chello.nl>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 11:34 AM
> Subject: [Leica] exposure question
>
>
> > Hi, I,d like advice on the following regarding exposure.
> > Normally i try the old advice of metering zone VII and then decreasing
> > exposure by 2 stops.However with my favourite scenes at night my meter
> > cannot register as low as that.Getting a better is not really an option
> > since i think it is quite good allready(minolta).So i end up bracketing
> and
> > adjusting levels a lot.Would you know a better way of doing it?
> > seasons greetings
> > simon jessurun
> >
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