Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs