Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/31

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Subject: [Leica] How do you meter expousure for negative colour film?
From: leicamshooter at yahoo.com (G Medina)
Date: Sun Jul 31 09:01:25 2005
 
Hello everyone,

I hear a lot in photography literature that with
negative c-41 colour film, one should meter for the
shadows, since the film has a two stop latitude for
overexpousure, but little tolerance for under
exposure. Overexposure is suppose to give more
contrasty saturated images, but I find that I tend to
get more saturated images when I treat negative colour
film like transparency film. I meter for the
highlights, and let the shadows fall where they may.
Does anyone experience this? Thanks for your replies.

G Medina


                
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