[photo-3d] Re: Fast film in old cameras plus FEDS

[Ted Kraegen <e.kraegen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had a recent experience where polarizers saved the day - while on a 
six week trip with my FEDBOY the auto setting stopped working - I 
diagnosed moisture from the bad european weather late last year after 
replacing the battery didn't work   - and I had to take pictures for 
the next few weeks on the non-auto settings, where the least exposure 
is 1/30 sec at f11.  By dropping back to 100 ASA film and using 
polarizers plus a hand meter I could cope with all but the very 
brightest of days (maxed out on the reef in Belize!).  Not optimal 
particularly with the slow shutter speed, but the slides generally 
look OK, at least to my relatively untrained eye.

  Since I got back it was suggested that I should have bought some 
neutral density filters, which I didn't think of at the time, but the 
general use of polarizers seemed OK and had some obvious advantages. 
Incidentally when I was walking along Waikiki beach on the last day 
of the trip the camera auto setting has started working again.  C'est 
la vie!

Ted Kraegen



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>Message: 5
>    Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:19:27 -0800
>    From: "John A. Rupkalvis" <stereoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Fast film in old cameras
>
>
>Actually, a wide variety of films are available at an E.I. of 100, and
>shooting this at f/16 at 1/100 second is about right for normal bright sun
>shots (the f/16 rule states that the reciprocal of the shutter speed should
>equal the film speed at f/16 in bright sun).  If you must cut the speed of a
>higher speed film, I would suggest that rather than wasting it with neutral
>densities, you use polarizers for controlling reflections, deepening blue
>sky, etc.
>
>JR
>