Re: Rangefinder and SLR

[boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Long)]

On Thu, 18 Jul 1996 01:53:22 +0200, you wrote:

|Kodak's data suggests ISO 80 for HIE. This refers to a hand-held meter, and
|assumes a red or ir filter is on the camera lens. That is, don't add any
|filter factor corrections to the ISO 80 reading!
|
|For real-time SLR TTL metering, set the meter to 300 - 400 ISO with a red
|filter. Or set the camera to 80 ISO and set the shutter/aperture without a
|filter, then screw on the filter and expose.

Again, though this may be sound advice, it flatly contradicts what I
read in the Kodak instructions, which specify that you should set a
separate meter to ISO 80 if you're using no filter or to ISO 50 if
you're using a Wratten 25.  Or am I somehow misreading these
instructions?  I've been following the instructions as I understand
them and getting negatives that while obviously generously exposed
(and sometimes infected with more halo than I'd like) are weak enough
in the shadow areas that I'd hesitate to set my SLRs for ISO 400, as
W-J suggests, seconding the above.

BL