[MF3D.FORUM:1081] Re:

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Glickman wrote:
> After all this mounting, it raised a question.  When shooting chrome
> film, as most people know, its hard to hold a sky while properly
> exposing the subject...unless you want to wait around for days
> (sometimes weeks) till everything is perfect to shoot.  In such
> cases like extremely overcast days, you get perfectly exposed
> subjects with no shadows, excellent!  However, the sky holds way too
> much light when overcast and the chrome will become clear acetate in
> the sky area.  This looks a bit awkward in the viewer of
> course...but the subjects look GREAT.
> 

There is another option.  You could use fill flash.  Set your exposure
on the camera to get the bright background correct.  Use the highest
shutter speed you can sync with.  Lie to your flash and set its manual
aperture setting to one stop wider than what the camera is really set
to (e.g., if the camera is at 1/500sec f/5.6 set the flash to f/4).

Modern electronic flashes (especially dedicated flashes for specific
cameras) may try to out smart you and force camera setting to match
the flash (or vice versa).

There are problems doing this with a twin rig instead of a stereo
camera.  I've only done it with my Sputnik, never with the Lubitels.
If you used a flash bulb instead of electronic flash you could
probably get away with it on a twin rig and twin cable releases if
your shutter could sync to flash bulbs.

I know people don't like using two flashes (due to conflicting
shadows), but has anyone tried two flashes (each triggered by a
different camera) mounted next to or on top of each other?  If they
are close enough perhaps they will appear to be one broad light
source.  Of course a twin MF camera, twin flash setup will start to
get pretty heavy.  Maybe even heavier than a Realist.

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