Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Following up on comments (on and off-list) by David Cochran, it looks like the gray appearance and graininess in some of my recent postings is due to simple underexposure. Compared to negatives taken in daylight on the same film rated identically, they are very thin. Osterloh (in "Leica M Advanced Photo School") says that the silicon diodes in exposure meters can be fooled by the predominantly red character of tungsten light leading to as much as 1/2 EV underexposure. My negs look more than 1 EV under. I'm wondering what the experience of LUG is in dealing with tungsten illumination. Do you derate the film? Do something else? (I know strong light sources can fool the meter and have always tried to meter well away from them.) Many thanks. -- Regards, Dick Boston MA