Re: HIE/Rodinal

[peteray@xxxxxxxxxx (Peter Ray)]

>I do not use any EI or light meter with HIE.  I have followed
>the suggested exposures from the Kodak data sheets with
>good results.  Kodak HIE with a #25 Red filter - bright sunny
>day - 1/125 @ f11, cloudy day - 1/60 @ f11 .  I process in
>HC110B for 5 minutes at 20C. Hope this helps.
>Bye,
>Dan Gordon

I, too, use those same settings and get great results. I usually shoot a
bracket of two (1/2 over and 1/2 under) and sometimes get two good
negatives. When its not sunny or bright cloudy, I go back to a bracket of
3.

I was sort of inspired by my instructor, Mr. Schnackenberg, who gave me a
copied exposure scale for daylight and one for night that listed various
light sources, subjects and conditions and talked about how consistent
light levels are. I think part of the idea was to create sort of a back up
light meter for poor students. They work great. Anyway I never take a light
meter. Somewhere, I've got plans for one that can be built from Radio Shack
materials and that would be great to shoot early in the day and late
afternoon shots, which I don't do much of now. Do you meter users have a
good system for those times?

Peter

P.S. I do use a very dilute developer, pre-soak, and fairly short
developing time though.



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