Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simon, By decreasing the exposure, you are going the wrong way around. You need to INCREASE the exposure. Zone VII, according to Ansel Adams' 'The Negative' is the tone that represents "Very light skin, light gray objects; average snow with acute side lighting". So if you meter off an area and you wish to place it on zone VII, then if the meter reads say 1/30 at f8, you need to give an exposure of 1/30 at f4.0. Hope that helps regards, Mark Pope Swindon Wilts, UK http://www.monomagic.co.uk http://www.leica-gallery.net/mark-pope - ----- Original Message ----- From: "animal" <s.jessurun95@chello.nl> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 11:34 AM Subject: [Leica] exposure question > Hi, I,d like advice on the following regarding exposure. > Normally i try the old advice of metering zone VII and then decreasing > exposure by 2 stops.However with my favourite scenes at night my meter > cannot register as low as that.Getting a better is not really an option > since i think it is quite good allready(minolta).So i end up bracketing and > adjusting levels a lot.Would you know a better way of doing it? > seasons greetings > simon jessurun > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html