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 > I use a variation of the 16 rule. If it is Sunny out and I am shooting an ISO 100 film I use a shutter speed lower (1/60 sec.) and F11, then if subject is partial shade open up one stop. If full shade 2 stops. Works well for me. Using the speed below with F11 sometimes buy you an extra 1/3 stop here and there which helps. Velvia 1/30 at f11 or /60 at F8 or 1/125 at F5.6 Peter K