Re: Through the Lens Metering for IR simplified

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

On  9 Sep 99 at 12:43, Rolland Elliott wrote:

> Subject: Through the Lens Metering for IR simplified
> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 17:58:45 EDT
>     P.S. the only reason why I'm being such a bother to you folk is
> cuz, the F90X & the Minolta 4F are just recently bought and I'm
> still trying to get a feeling of how my gear works. I want to be > able to
> know exactly how my equipments metering works w/o burning
> too many rolls ;)
> 
> 
>         You want an honest suggestion?Brutally honest?
> Forget the inboard light meter.Forget any light meter.
> For #25, and assuming a bright sunny day, simply use a bracket of >>1/250s
> @
> f5.6-11....for #87C, a bracket of 1/60s @ f5.6-11.
> This not only gives you much more consistent results, but also a >>much
> better 'feel' for the film, since you can spot instantly what value
> created the best image in a given situation. And makes you more
> flexible when you use different cameras, mixing inboard with
> >>outboardlight meters constantly..
> 
> 
> 
> Sorry, but I have to play the devil's advocate on this topic.  A very quick
> and easy way to calibrate your camera's inboard light meter to IR light is
> outlined below:
> 

The best cameras (read: most exotic) don't have inboard light 
meters....:-))
I even fabricated a sliding-filter solution for my Gossen Sixtomat 
(Gossen 'Pilot' in the US I believe), but it gets a little silly 
finding the same values time after time....

Of course, compared to other films, the cute thing about HIE is that
a) you can't shoot without a (more or less consistently) bright sun,
and b) you bracket anyway +1/0/-1 (at least I do....the technical
best image might be consistently #1/2/3, but the artist often
chooses otherwise, whatever gives the appropriate mood).

> 

--                 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


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


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