Re: Sunny-16 Rule

[P3D Tom White <tomwhite@xxxxxxx>]

Adrian McCarthy writes:

>The "Sunny-16" rule that people have been quoting seems wrong to 
>me.  I just returned from Hawaii (poor me) where I shot 15 rolls 
>with my "flat" SLR and my twin SLR rig.  On sunny, cloudless 
>days I was shooting Sensia 100 (slides) at f/16 at 1/30 to 1/60 
>second. In other words, I needed roughly one to two stops more 
>light that the Sunny-16 rule.
>
>With the polarizers on, I resorted to 1/15 s and hoped that I 
>could hold the monopod steady enough.  I bracket my exposures, 
>but for nearly all these pix, the meters seemed right on -- 
>awesome color saturation and little to no burn-out on the 
>highlights.
>

Aid:

I guess I don't understand your comment about polarizers. Are you using
polarizers on your camera's lenses? If so, that would account for the 1-2
stops of under exposure. Polarizers will attenuate the light at least one
stop. Are you using polarizers to control glare or what?

Sunny 16 works fine for me.

Tom White
DDDriftwood, Texas


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