Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If it's positive film, or digital, meter for the highlights; if it's negative - color or black and white - meter for the shadows. But why ask as if you've already decided that everyone else is wrong? ;-) On 7/31/05 12:01 PM, "G Medina" <leicamshooter@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I hear a lot in photography literature that with > negative c-41 colour film, one should meter for the > shadows, since the film has a two stop latitude for > overexpousure, but little tolerance for under > exposure. Overexposure is suppose to give more > contrasty saturated images, but I find that I tend to > get more saturated images when I treat negative colour > film like transparency film. I meter for the > highlights, and let the shadows fall where they may. > Does anyone experience this? Thanks for your replies. > > G Medina > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information