Re: I.R. Metering - Step up to the challenge

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

On  6 Jun 99 at 11:08, Andrew Davidhazy wrote:

> The fact is that the Kodak supplied guidelines for use of High Speed Infrared
> film work quite well ... so use a light meter and apply filter factors. The
> only time you will be in trouble is when you try to use this process in unusual
> lighting conditions (if you can call fluorescent lighting unusual!).

Shooting *under* foliage is one of those tricky things....visual 
meter shows several stops less light, while for IR the difference is 
marginal. I once almost ruined a wedding session this way....all 
shots were overexposed, only the -1/0/+1 bracketing caught some lucky 
ones. 

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Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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