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Subject: [Leica] Underexposed Nikkor pics?
From: richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)
Date: Sat Sep 16 01:13:18 2006
References: <6.1.0.6.2.20060915201626.0893cbe8@192.168.100.42> <450B886D.6070003@adrenaline.com>

Wait wait, I think I did the math backward. If the film is ASA400 but I set 
the camera meter to ASA100, that's over exposing it 2 stops?


At 10:15 PM 9/15/2006, you wrote:

>Yup. Scanners like thin negs.
>
>Scott
>
>Richard wrote:
>
>>I am just loading up another roll of Neopan in the MP and I notice that 
>>the ASA was set to 100, meaning that the Nikkor 50/1.4 pics were 
>>underexposed by 2 stops:
>>http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/PICS/091406/
>>
>>I developed it in 777 10:30 mins thinking it was exposed normally. Now I 
>>scanned the negs in so the scanning may have compensate for the 
>>underexposure but even by eyeballing, the negs look pretty darn good. Is 
>>this possible that 2 stop underexposed negs can look like these?
>
>// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please 
>use richard at imagecraft.com) 


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