P3D Re: Slide Exposure

[Pixschack@xxxxxxx]

Mark Shields wrote:

> 
>  Of course you want to do the best you can to get it right for those
>  action shots, like moving trains (in my case) where bracketing isn't
>  practical.

Of course if you have no chance to bracket, then you do the best you can.  I 
love those trains too!  Eventually another will go by.  (what is it about 
stereographers and trains)?

I use a pair of Ricoh KR(XR)-10M  SLR's which have the auto bracketing 
feature that you mentioned.  It brackets 1/2 stop under and over what you've 
set.  I don't use it.
My bracket is usually a full stop under and/or over.  Only very rarely is 
this variation too extreme to obtain a nice exposure.  

Quite often I'll see a slide in our club competition for instance,  that 
would be wonderful but for the fact that is appears a stop or two under 
exposed on the screen.
I usually hear that it looked just fine in the viewer.  When I query the 
maker about it, I commonly hear that a lighter version does not exist.  Lots 
of points are lost this way.  The light sources for viewing slides will 
always vary in intensity.  It makes sense to have different densities of the 
same view to make up for it.  

Gary Schacker


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