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Miles Nelson, M.D. |
20:04 9 Mar 08 |
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Stephen E. Sample |
19:46 13 Nov 07 |
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Steve Nicholls |
16:03 14 Nov 07 |
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Ben Wilbur |
14:48 15 Nov 07 |
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Stephen E. Sample |
15:50 15 Nov 07 |
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Steve Nicholls |
19:58 11 Nov 07 |
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Philippe Bedfert |
0:49 12 Nov 07 |
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Steve Nicholls |
15:13 12 Nov 07 |
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Steve Nicholls |
15:50 11 Nov 07 |
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Recently I purchased a Minolta Spotmeter F and while I use my incident meter [Minolta] for most subjects I do enjoy the spot meter on occasions, however, ???????
Now my question for those using a spot meter with the ExpoDev.
I have noticed that while a zone 3 can be easy enough to determine, it is often difficult to read a high value for placement on zone 7. The scene may not contain an obvious one. Or if it does it cannot be easily read. Example a forest floor with a few rocks and fairly even light.
This is my solution -- Use the incident meter and the ExpoDev in incident mode
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take the zone 3 reading and then look for a tone in the scene I know is zone 5 or 6 and place that as the high zone but call it zone 5 or 6 depending of course what I actually read it at.
I arrived at this method by experimenting with a general scene and reading z3 and z7 as the high and low readings, then reading a z6 or whatever from that same scene and entering that value in the palm but calling it z6 for the high reading. The exposure and development were almost [barring slight reading errors] identical.
The results have been fine but I was curious how others handle that type of situation?
I understand the methodology of BTZS very well and don't think in zones as such but as the expodev uses that method it is the terminology I have used here.
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Ben Wilbur |
10:38 12 Nov 07 |
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