P3D Shutter speeds and stereo cameras: please help!

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Hi!

Thanks for responding to my post.

My novice question is this: Can the shutter speed of, say, a Realist, be
set *in between* two marked speeds? This has become an issue for me because
my spiffy new light meter displays shutter speeds which do not match those
stamped in the shutter speed dial of the camera. The meter moves in
half-stop increments and has a knack for landing on speeds that I cannot
reproduce on my Realist. Or can I? If the suggested shutter speed is, say,
1/90 sec., can I set the shutter speed dial on the camera to just a whisker
infront of the 1/100 sec. mark? My hunch is that I can't, as such fudging
is not allowed on my old TLR.

I just wish my meter (the Minolta IV F) would scale up and down in third of
a stop increments rather than half stops. If the shutter speed on the
camera cannot be set *in between*, it looks as though I'll have no choice
but to carry another aparatus with me: a calculator. However, even then,
I'm hardly equiped to set the exposure properly 'cause I wouldn't know how.
Let me explain. If the meter read 1/90 at f4.0 5 (the 5 denoting five
tenths toward f5.6), I would, I'm assuming, set the camera to the nearest
corresponding shutter speed and then compensate with the apeture dial.
Therefore, at 1/100, I'd be stopped down some fraction of a stop I don't
understand below the prescribed speed, but I'd be required to compensate
for that fraction in the apeture setting. All's I would do in that
situation is fudge. I'd say to myself, "Okay, 1/100 is a whisker faster.
So, set the apeture a whisker wider." That kind of calculating is pretty
lame if I ever expect to be a decent photographer. If any of you have
mastered this sort of quick, exposure compensation calculation, please
share your wisdom.


Thanks in advance,


Jason




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