Re: B&W IE

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 16 Oct 96 at 21:36, Bobbie Doyle wrote:

> So, are you saying that you do not use your on-board camera meter? But,
> how do you go across all of that snow on your skis, get to your shooting
> location, pull out your Gossen hand-held meter, take the light reading,
> put the meter down, take one shot at the reading the meter suggested, one
> two stops under, and one two stops over? 
> 
> My experience has been that this film(Kodak) HIE tends toward
> overexposure. My early negatives looked liked a black cat in a coal mine.
> That is why I have been trying the higher ASA settings. Do you think that
> I should just forget the on-board camera meter and use the hand-held?
> But,if you still advise bracketing plus one/minus one, aren't I
> doing the same thing in a sense with the camera meter/TTF?

I am a complicated example, because one of my cameras (Horizon 202)
is always fitted with a #87C, yet doesn't have a TTL meter. With my
other EOS gear OTOH, I can't use opaque filters, #89B is the limit
for composing (AF isn't a problem, it will AF right through a #87C),
and one of my most used lenses is a Russian 26mm fisheye with a
factory red rear screw filter (likewise for the Sigma 8mm; working
on a darker solution, but can't find thin #89B in anything else than
gelatine). And I have learned to trust my EOS if I dial in 400ASA,
knowing to bracket more towards + than - with the #70 I used last
year. Haven't done extensive testing/calibration with the #89B yet.

The point is: you can do both, but I *must* do both. My hand held 
meter is set for the #87C on the Horizon, the various filters with 
EOS require the inboard meter. Both fisheyes being manual stop down 
also makes things more convenient to rely on TTL (to see anything 
through #89B, you have to open up, and with frequent open up/stopping 
down I can't always be sure to hit the same aperature again).
All that said; after having taken a few readings on the slope during
the day, it appeared that I am almost always stuck with a 1/60@xx
with the #87C/Horizon. And the field of view is so wide that a more
accurate reading isn't usefull, unlike a 200mm on my EOS. 
Bracketing takes care of most. 

Maybe we should organize a workshop in a ski resort?....8-))

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