Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]csocolow wrote: > > Does anyone have any tips/techniques for meterless photography? I use > the "sunny 16 rule" allowing a filter factor for pollution, etc. I know > that fluorescent lighting with 400 ISO film is 1/30 @ f/4. My question > regards ambiguous situations such as shade, overcast days, low-level > twilight, etc. A year or so ago someone posted an old trick they had > learned in the military having to do with intensity of shadow cast on > the ground as a basis for exposure calculation. Cartier-Bresson > eye-balled his exposures. Anything along these lines would help. > -- > Carl Socolow If it was my decision to go meterless here's how I would do it: I would decide right off the bat which film I was going to be using for the rest of my life: Tri X or Delta 3200. After I decided on my film speed for life I would grab my Gossen Pilot or Luna Pro digital and take off for the day. IF I was reaaly obsessive I might bring a pad of paper for three columns: 1. Title 2. My guess of the reading, 3. what the reading really was. Halfway though the day I expect the last two columns to start agreeing. Then I would take my camera out with no meter connected. Guess the reading, check with the meter to make sure, then shoot. By the end of the day I would loose the meter, forever more. I would run home and run the film and make a contact right off. I would then make a stack of 8 by 10s and before I lost my list put the exposures on the back of the prints when they dried. I would then use those prints as flash cards before I went out shooting next time if I hadn't done it in a while to refresh my memory as to what is what. I know this would work. But goodby playing around with different filmspeeds. My brain wouldn't absorb that. Mark :-) Rabiner