Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] exposure question
From: "Mark Pope" <leica.user@ntlworld.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:19:10 -0000
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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




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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
>
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