Learning the new forum. I thought it would show the double exposure of the stone lion and the sunset in the window. Plus I don’t have enough post to reply.
madNbad wrote:
Learning the new forum. I thought it would show the double exposure of the stone lion and the sunset in the window. Plus I don’t have enough post to reply.
ahh ok. That shot was not a double exposure. It’s a house on the strand here across from the ocean. It has a glass wall so they can see the action w/o the action coming onto their property. That stone lion is behind the glass. I thought it would be cool to take a shot of the lion watching the sunset. The sunset is a reflection..
Of course I wish I took this on my $5500 film scratching Leica M6 so I can say some dumba$$ thing like ‘see, because of Leica’. But no, I took it on a $40 Nikon FG which makes me question my whole value system.
My success rate with film is still pretty low (just getting back into it after a 22-year break), and my last two rolls were pretty much trash due to exposure problems...I have two different meters and now I know which one I'll be using going forward.
I did get a few okay shots: two on Ektar and one on Delta 400. All shot on Canon P rangefinder with Canon 50/1.4 LTM.
bjhurley wrote:
My success rate with film is still pretty low (just getting back into it after a 22-year break), and my last two rolls were pretty much trash due to exposure problems...I have two different meters and now I know which one I'll be using going forward.
I did get a few okay shots: two on Ektar and one on Delta 400. All shot on Canon P rangefinder with Canon 50/1.4 LTM.
There are a whole bunch of light meter apps, all which seem to work well. As I assume you always have your phone w u, using an app means one less thing to bring along. Plus chances are it is more accurate than if you use an old meter.
Desmolicious wrote:
There are a whole bunch of light meter apps, all which seem to work well. As I assume you always have your phone w u, using an app means one less thing to bring along. Plus chances are it is more accurate than if you use an old meter.
I tried using a phone app for my first roll and it was a disaster; almost everything was badly underexposed. I then got a hot-shoe mounted meter (Hedeco Lime II) and it's nice but impossible to read in bright conditions. I still use it a bit, but am finding that the Reveni Labs incident meter is giving me better results and is much easier to read. It does reflective readings as well as incident, so it's a good all-purpose meter, and you can put rechargable AAA batteries into it.
bjhurley wrote:
I tried using a phone app for my first roll and it was a disaster; almost everything was badly underexposed. I then got a hot-shoe mounted meter (Hedeco Lime II) and it's nice but impossible to read in bright conditions. I still use it a bit, but am finding that the Reveni Labs incident meter is giving me better results and is much easier to read. It does reflective readings as well as incident, so it's a good all-purpose meter, and you can put rechargable AAA batteries into it.
What App? Mylightmeter (pro) has been dead on accurate for me. Even in snowy conditions etc its worked.
RustyRus wrote:
What App? Mylightmeter (pro) has been dead on accurate for me. Even in snowy conditions etc its worked.
Yeah, I've never had issues w using an app. Set ISO on app to match film speed. If the image looks good on the screen, the exposure is correct. Then note what those exposure values are, transfer to camera.
RustyRus wrote:
What App? Mylightmeter (pro) has been dead on accurate for me. Even in snowy conditions etc its worked.
I used the Viewfinder app, mainly because 1) it has rangefinder framelines, which I find useful for pre-framing the shot and getting an exposure, 2) it actually has a decent emulation of several films, including the one I was using, 3) you can snap a photo with it and it'll save all the exposure information, and 4) you can add notes.
I wanted something to document my exposures on my first few rolls of film so I could compare with the photos I got back from the lab and learn from my mistakes. The phone versions of my photos were mostly better-exposed than the film shots, even though I used all the same settings (ISO, aperture, shutter speed). I generally exposed for darker areas like the ground and erred on the side of overexposing, but still a lot of my shots were underexposed. Once I switched to a camera-mounted meter, those rolls came out much better (except for my first B&W roll, which again was badly underexposed and I only had a couple of usable shots from it).
